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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the The Basic Self use pain?
(a) As a way to solve other problems.
(b) To learn how to let go.
(c) To learn faith.
(d) To get one's attention.

2. What is so painful during Dan's time on the surfboard?
(a) The realization of his impending death.
(b) The realization of his stupidity.
(c) Knowing his daughter would grow up without him.
(d) His sunburned body.

3. What does Mama Chia do after Dan has slept for 36 hours?
(a) Sends him back to the mainland.
(b) Sends him back to Oahu on the surfboard.
(c) Sends him on a mystical journey.
(d) Rouses him.

4. When do Mama Chia's parents die?
(a) When she is 44.
(b) When she is 19.
(c) When she is 11.
(d) When she is 7.

5. What does Mama Chia see as hidden gifts?
(a) Death and rebirth.
(b) The way human beings do not believe in their deaths.
(c) Painful physical challenges she suffers as a child.
(d) The unconscious.

6. How does Millman finally decide to contact the woman whom Socrates mentioned?
(a) Asking his wife.
(b) Going from bank to bank.
(c) Writing back to Socrates and waiting for his answer.
(d) A personal ad in the newspaper.

7. What appears as Dan sees himself in a circle?
(a) The moon.
(b) The sun.
(c) Artemis.
(d) Three glowing lights.

8. What does Mama Chia say she did nine years ago?
(a) Meet Socrates in India.
(b) Contacted an alien.
(c) Help bring Sachi into the world.
(d) Gave a speech at the World Holistic Conference.

9. What happens to a student at Oberlin despite prayers?
(a) She is not found in the woods.
(b) She is lame.
(c) She dies.
(d) She flunks out.

10. Where does Millman decide to go?
(a) South America.
(b) New York.
(c) Alaska.
(d) India.

11. What grant is Millman awarded?
(a) A travel grant.
(b) A land deed grant.
(c) A stock option grant.
(d) A trust grant.

12. What does Socrates predict in a letter?
(a) That Mama Chia will not have success with Dan.
(b) That Dan will die in Hawaii.
(c) That Dan will be hard on himself and excitable.
(d) That Dan will be easy to sway to Mama Chia's ways.

13. Why has Dan no sense of time or bearings?
(a) He leaves his watch on shore and it's cloudy.
(b) He has never done this before.
(c) He is in a daze.
(d) He hit his head on the rocks when the surfboard was washed onto shore.

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

15. Who heals Mama Chia's psyche after a failed marriage?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her grandmother.
(c) Socrates.
(d) She heals herself.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Dan respond when he realizes his predicament?

2. What does Mama Chia draw in the sand?

3. When does Mama Chia resume her work as midwife and kahuna?

4. What strikes Millman by its grandeur?

5. Who does Mama Chia meet when she is 7?

(see the answer keys)

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