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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Liz decides to ask Sophie if she wants to head out for a ________ eating outing in Naples, according to the story.
(a) Cheese.
(b) Pasta.
(c) Pizza.
(d) Bread.

2. Liz continues to sing, helping the mystical _____________ that holds unknown destinies, according to the writing in this book.
(a) Building.
(b) Cone.
(c) Fishing net.
(d) Water pitcher.

3. What does Liz take great joy in buying after she begins to understand what brings her pleasure when she is in Italy?
(a) Ingredients.
(b) Books.
(c) Music.
(d) Plants.

4. What offers Liz ever-shifting images that begin to drive her crazy, even as she is trying to push them away?
(a) A woman.
(b) Richard.
(c) Mind.
(d) The Guru.

5. Liz tries to learn one-_______________ by using mantras, which will give her mind something to do.
(a) Direction.
(b) Pointedness.
(c) Focus.
(d) Use.

Short Answer Questions

1. What New Year does Liz help to chant in upon her arrival at the Ashram and in India for the next part of her trip?

2. Who is the gorgeous, attentive actor and writer with whom Liz begins an affair during the midst of her divorce?

3. Liz also begins to attend a _________ meditation group where she learns more about the guru to whom she is introduced.

4. Where exactly is Liz, the author, at the beginning of the book when she begins to tell her story?

5. Liz's new lover is _________ over her addiction to him and her despondency about her situation.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the yogic path do for the person who uses it as more than just an exercise practice?

2. Why does one of Liz's friends know of all of the best places to eat in Rome when she is there?

3. What happens when Liz decides to pray to God for the first time during that dark period of her life?

4. How does Liz begin to define pleasure for herself, allowing herself to relax and be happy for once in her life?

5. Why do Giovanni and Liz meet frequently, according to the beginning of the book?

6. What have Liz's friends told her about herself whenever she is in a relationship with a man?

7. What is the meaning of the new mantra which Liz is going to be using during her stay at the Ashram?

8. What does Liz do when she begins to hear her ex-husband's voice in her head when she is cooking for herself?

9. What is the schedule the students have to follow, in terms of the time they need to get up and the time they need to go to bed?

10. Why does Liz become lonely and depressed in her new Italian home, according to her writing in the book?

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