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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the Palanese do about individuality?
(a) They integrate individuality into acceptance
(b) All of the below
(c) They assess and classify them
(d) They teach others to respect each other's differences

2. Who does Will leave with?
(a) Susila
(b) Mary
(c) Murugan
(d) The Rani

3. How did Will view Aunt Mary's love?
(a) Like a perpetually blooming flower
(b) It was chokingly powerful
(c) As a kind of physical radiation
(d) Quiet and serene, like a slow moving river

4. What kind of staff does Will use?
(a) Bamboo
(b) Willow
(c) Walnut
(d) Pine

5. Where was Dr. Robert serving as a naturalist?
(a) On the Olympus
(b) On the Melampus
(c) On the Nautilus
(d) In Turkey

6. What musician does Susila put on?
(a) Gabrieli
(b) Nickleback
(c) Beethoven
(d) Bach

7. How is Artificial Insemination justified religiously?
(a) Reincarnation and Piety
(b) Karma and reincarnation
(c) Karma and Restitution
(d) God wanted those sperm to be there

8. What two physical traits does Shanta say her baby will possess?
(a) He will be tall and lean
(b) He will be endomorphic and viscerotonic
(c) He will be athletic and toned
(d) He will be intelligent and chubby

9. How old is the baby Shanta is nursing?
(a) Eight months
(b) Six months
(c) Eighteen months
(d) Thirteen months

10. What does Will describe the Moksha-medicine experience as?
(a) Luminous bliss
(b) Deepening sorrow
(c) Maddening anger
(d) Encroaching darkness

11. What did Susila do that helped her feel better?
(a) Hit the dashboard
(b) The Hornpipe
(c) Punched Will in the ribs
(d) Screamed

12. What is capable in a very deep trance?
(a) Levitation
(b) Time distortion
(c) Clear meditation
(d) Accurate Clairvoyance

13. What did Will's teachers try to do about people's differences?
(a) Iron them out
(b) Exploit them for their own gain
(c) Make them more than they were
(d) Blow them out of proportion

14. Who shows up at Shanta and Vijaya's house?
(a) Dr. Robert and Susila
(b) Susila and Dugald
(c) Tom Krishna and Mary Sarojini
(d) The Rani and Murugan

15. What is a Palanese criterion of a good school?
(a) Success
(b) Winning scholarships
(c) Creating puppets out of children
(d) Creating strength for the state

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years before the rest of the world did Palanese figure out AI?

2. What does Dr. Robert believe will be a major political issue when Murugan comes of age?

3. What lands on the altar in the service?

4. How does WIll react to the Rani's letter?

5. What urgent matter did the Rani call to discuss with Will?

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