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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3 and Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What lesson from Socrates does the author have difficulty following in this early part of the book?
(a) Detachment.
(b) Being in the present moment.
(c) Meditation.
(d) Compassion.

2. What shows Dan the way?
(a) An angel.
(b) A raven.
(c) An albatross.
(d) A whale.

3. Why should Dan meditate by the waterfall?
(a) To really hear the waterfall.
(b) If he needs to prove something to himself.
(c) No particular reason.
(d) So the sound blocks out his thoughts.

4. What happens as Dan contemplates the sky from the surfboard?
(a) He wonders about his daughter.
(b) He realizes he has been duped.
(c) He falls asleep.
(d) He falls off.

5. Who does Millman meet outside the last bank he visits?
(a) His wife.
(b) A woman in her sixties walking with a cane.
(c) A professor from Stanford.
(d) A native Hawaiian man.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Fuji and Dan panic?

2. What is Fuji's best move for a fight?

3. What returns to Dan as he is healing?

4. After returning home, where is Dan going?

5. What happens to a student at Oberlin despite prayers?

(see the answer key)

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