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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the officials instruct the narrator to do once he is a member of the League?
(a) Fast for forty days to prove he is worthy of the task before him.
(b) Attach himself to a group of ten people en route to the expidition.
(c) Meditate and prepare his body and soul to accept the Tao.
(d) Stand vigil over the sacred book for one full day and night.

2. What happens to H.H.'s first attempt to tell his story?
(a) He is too sad to remember the events.
(b) He believes the journey is not worth remembering.
(c) He is brought to a halt by a single, small episode.
(d) He loses his journal.

3. Who or what does H.H. say is the basis of his community in Part II?
(a) The Bible.
(b) The journey.
(c) The Enlightenment.
(d) The League.

4. In Part I, how does the narrator describe encounters with different parties?
(a) Parties ban together for the rest of the journey.
(b) As pleasant, festive days.
(c) Different parties are very secretive.
(d) As difficult and confusing.

5. What does the deserter wish to do some time later?
(a) Expose the League's secrets.
(b) Write his memoirs for publication.
(c) Gain the confidence of the League Speaker.
(d) Be forgiven and rejoin the League.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who unexpectedly disappears from the journey as Part II opens?

2. In Part I, what does the narrator realize about the Journey East?

3. In Part II, where does one man assert an important document is?

4. In Part II, what does H.H. say he would willing exchange his belief for?

5. In Part II, how does H.H. describe what everything has become to him?

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