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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Chapters 4-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What returns to Dan as he is healing?
(a) A renewed sense of urgency.
(b) Peace.
(c) A sense of anger at his stupidity.
(d) A new sense of direction.

2. What does Dan jokingly say he'll call the diet he follows while floating on the surfboard?
(a) The Stupidity Diet.
(b) The Mama Chia Diet.
(c) The Surfboard Diet.
(d) The non-eating diet.

3. What is one thing Ruth and Dan have in common?
(a) Oberlin.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Princeton.
(d) Yale.

4. Who is Ruth Johnson?
(a) The young bank teller with whom Millman has dinner.
(b) A lawyer.
(c) A psychiatrist.
(d) An older woman in a muumuu.

5. What is the major difference between the author and his wife, Linda?
(a) He is meticulous and organized and she is sloppy.
(b) He is comfortable in the "conventional" world and she is not.
(c) She is comfortable in the "conventional" world and he is not.
(d) She is meticulous and organized and he is sloppy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Millman become more dejected as time passes on his travels?

2. For whom does Mitsu yell?

3. At what time of the year does Millman arrive in Delhi?

4. What cure does Ruth prescribe for Dan?

5. At some point, what would Dan have traded for some water?

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