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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Liz sees the new students as the __________ from Close Encounters of the Third Kind, confused and disoriented.
(a) Children.
(b) Leaders.
(c) Seekers.
(d) Aliens.

2. Ketut tells Liz that he will begin to teach her the meditations of the land, but that he will also _______________.
(a) Leave in the end.
(b) Write a book with her.
(c) Find her a husband.
(d) Die before he is done.

3. Whose lease is up and the rent on the house is going to go up as a result, which causes suffering for this person?
(a) Liz.
(b) Felipe.
(c) Ketut.
(d) Wayan.

4. What does Liz realize she has been doing too much in her initial months at the Ashram, on her way back from the airport?
(a) Meditating.
(b) Speaking.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Interacting with others.

5. Liz decides her experience feels like she is pulled through a ____________ of the Absolute into a place of limitless wisdom.
(a) Wormhole.
(b) Vortex.
(c) Tunnel.
(d) Cloud.

6. What does Liz have to tell Ketut that she is in order for him to recognize her again in the story?
(a) Student of life.
(b) Book writer.
(c) The one who loses all of her money.
(d) Seeker.

7. What does Liz finally do which helps her to sleep after talking with Felipe during the day?
(a) Chant the Gurgita.
(b) Read.
(c) Eat.
(d) Masturbate.

8. Felipe is kind enough to ask Liz if they should have ______________, which makes Liz feel at ease, even though she says no.
(a) An affair.
(b) A child.
(c) A trip to the States.
(d) A house together.

9. Liz finds out she does not need to change her natural character in order to be ___________ in her life.
(a) Measured.
(b) True.
(c) Quiet.
(d) Devout.

10. What happens to Liz which causes her to go to see a healer, Wayan Nuriyasih, according to the story?
(a) Nothing.
(b) She gets malaria.
(c) She's just curious.
(d) She's hit by a bus.

11. What does Liz want to complete before she is with Felipe or with any other man in the world?
(a) All of the yogic chants.
(b) Her training with Ketut.
(c) Transformation.
(d) A book.

12. Liz asks her friends to send Wayan money instead of sending ____________ to Liz, as she requests in an email.
(a) Food.
(b) Birthday presents.
(c) Books.
(d) Cards.

13. Two years previous, Liz decides to go to ____________ where she decides to name all of her pains, acknowledge their presence, and move on.
(a) Honolulu.
(b) New York.
(c) Gili Meno Island.
(d) Bali proper.

14. What does Mario help Liz buy so that she can get around town more easily during her stay in Bali?
(a) Bike.
(b) Motorcycle.
(c) Scooter.
(d) Car.

15. Ketut says that __________ too is hard, but he encourages her to keep doing it anyways as a part of her practice.
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Yoga.
(c) Prayer.
(d) Living.

Short Answer Questions

1. Religious rituals grow out of mystical experimentation by brave scouts who become ____________, according to the writing in this book.

2. What is the reassignment that Liz receives the morning after deciding that she wants to do something different with her time?

3. Felipe takes Liz to the beach where he says that he admires her ___________ body as they are on the sand.

4. Searching for the divine ___________, according to the writing in this book, makes all suffering worth that effort.

5. What does Ketut say about the various forms of yoga and what they have to offer a person?

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