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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 kind of situations does Anacreonte claim we are put in?
(a) Situations that can change our inner lives for the better.
(b) Situations that put the least evolved people in the greatest danger.
(c) Situations that allow us to develop our deepest personal interests.
(d) Situations that correspond to our degree of evolution.

2. What is the song at the beginning of chapter five about?
(a) Ways in which a beautiful person is bad.
(b) A lost love remembered.
(c) A spiritual awakening.
(d) Seeing a person known long ago and remembering old times.

3. What is the argument presented in chapter five in favor of suffering?
(a) Those who suffer do tasks in society that the pleasure seekers are unwilling to do, but are still necessary.
(b) There is not enough abundance in the world for everyone to experience pleasure at the same time.
(c) Not everyone has done the work in their past lives necessary to avoid suffering.
(d) It leads to enlightenment and evolution.

4. Who is Cuquita?
(a) Rodrigo's mother.
(b) Azucena's apartment supervisor.
(c) Azucena's Guardian Angel.
(d) Rodrigo's boss.

5. According to the narrator of chapter eight, how does the Supreme Intelligence communicate with us?
(a) Using a direct line, though it may encounter interference.
(b) Using Guardian Angels as go betweens.
(c) Using an audible voice.
(d) Using our emotions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Azucena's Guardian Angel argue is connected?

2. What does Isabel suspect?

3. What is the narrator's mood in chapter five?

4. What does Azucena's Guardian Angel think of her feeling isolated?

5. What does Isabel dislike about Abel Zabludowsky interviewing Camela?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Cuquita and Azucena decide to travel to the planet Korma?

2. Why does Azucena believe that Isabel is out to hurt her?

3. What is Agapito's position?

4. What do we learn about the nature of karma with Rodrigo's memory of having been raped?

5. How does the change of narrative perspective add to or take away from the story?

6. In chapter thirteen, what condition did Azucena return to life?

7. What does Anacreonte say about Ego?

8. How is life in this future version of Mexico City different from life today?

9. What is the Law of Love?

10. What did Isabel do to her second daughter?

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