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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Ruth say that gets Dan's attention as he is leaving the juice stand?
(a) Create a nice day.
(b) Nice is the day to create.
(c) Have a nice day.
(d) A nice day is having you.

3. Upon what island does Dan land?
(a) Maui.
(b) Molokai.
(c) Oahu.
(d) The Big Island.

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

5. Of what does Fuji have to let go?
(a) His daughter.
(b) His dead son.
(c) Everything he lost in a fire.
(d) His wife.

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

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

8. What is a fakir?
(a) A person who demonstrates unusual abilities.
(b) A governmental authority in India.
(c) Someone who is a leader of his spiritual group.
(d) Someone who fakes magic.

9. Everyone the author looks, what does he see?
(a) Prosperity.
(b) Others searching for something, too.
(c) Joy and optimism.
(d) Beggars.

10. What do you think is the hardest thing about leaving for Millman?
(a) Leaving his daughter.
(b) Leaving his ailing father.
(c) Leaving his students.
(d) Leaving his wife.

11. What is one thing the Advaita Vendanta teach?
(a) That spirit is ascendent over flesh.
(b) That life is more important than the between life.
(c) That flesh and spirit are not separate.
(d) That flesh is impure.

12. For what is Molokai most known?
(a) It is a leper colony in the 1800s.
(b) It is the garden island.
(c) It is the largest island.
(d) It is the forbidden island.

13. Who is having a baby in chapter 5?
(a) Ruth's daughter.
(b) Ruth's granddaughter.
(c) Mitsu Fujimoto.
(d) Sei.

14. What is the main thing that keeps Dan looking after feeling quite discouraged?
(a) Intuition.
(b) Curiousity.
(c) Discipline.
(d) Stupidity.

15. What does she do after drawing the figure?
(a) Sings.
(b) Dances.
(c) Prays.
(d) Goes into a trance.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what has Mama Chia put Dan in touch?

2. Why does the author do what he does on his wedding night?

3. What is so painful during Dan's time on the surfboard?

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

5. Once Mama Chia has taken Dan to the edge and points the way, what does he have to do?

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