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

2. Who does Will remember that hurts him so much from his childhood?
(a) Tiger, a dog
(b) Aunt Molly
(c) Tigger, a cat
(d) His best friend, Spencer

3. How did Will's Aunt Mary change?
(a) She went from being loving, giving and charitable to hating everyone who wasn't sick
(b) She went from being totally beautiful and appealing to being haggard and ugly
(c) She went from being an escape from his parents to being a regretted trip
(d) She went from being someone he loved to someone he hated

4. What makes Leela happy?
(a) That Will likes Ranga and Radha
(b) Will Farnaby's charm and good looks
(c) That they are going to the High Altitude Station
(d) Will Farnaby's manners

5. What is the benefit of being able to enter deep trances?
(a) Advanced relaxation
(b) Being able to see bad thing before they happen
(c) Ability to travel distances without moving
(d) Short cuts to memorization

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where was Dr. Robert serving as a naturalist?

3. What things are responsible for the mirage of happiness?

4. Who picks Will up?

5. Why did Shanta send Tom to talk to Vijaya?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Leela Rao's position on the island? What makes her important?

2. What is the advice to every pair of lovers?

3. What is the idea behind repetition in a religious nature?

4. How does Murugan's interest in consumer goods benefit Colonel Dipa?

5. In Pala, what is "grace" and how does this version of "grace" differ from ours?

6. Why does Mrs. Rao believe that Pala is the place for stupid people?

7. What does Will tell Susila on impulse and how does he expect her to react?

8. How are Stalin and Hitler reduced in Chapter 9?

9. Why does Murugan view the ceremony at the temple with open contempt?

10. What does Will notice about the differences between Lakshmi and Aunt Mary?

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