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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mama Chia think Dan is strong enough to do?
(a) Swim back to Oahu.
(b) Surf without a board.
(c) Carry her pack.
(d) Carry his pack.

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

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

4. What kind of juice do Ruth and Dan have to drink when they first meet?
(a) Carrot.
(b) Mango.
(c) Orange.
(d) Apple.

5. What is the best definition for the Hawaiian word "kahuna?"
(a) Magician or expert in any situation.
(b) The head honcho.
(c) The one who is to blame.
(d) The one who is to sustain.

6. 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 hit his head on the rocks when the surfboard was washed onto shore.
(d) He is in a daze.

7. What cure does Ruth prescribe for Dan?
(a) A sauna.
(b) A barefoot walk in the surf.
(c) A tanning booth.
(d) A barefoot walk on coals.

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

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

10. What strikes Millman by its grandeur?
(a) The Purarimjes.
(b) The Himalayas.
(c) The Ganges River.
(d) The Taj Mahal.

11. What is the law of faith?
(a) Knowing one thing but doing another.
(b) The ability to do without doing.
(c) Doing one thing but knowing another.
(d) The courage to live as though everything happens for one's highest good and learning.

12. At some point, what would Dan have traded for some water?
(a) His wife and daughter.
(b) His life.
(c) Enlightenment.
(d) All his money.

13. How does Dan respond when he realizes his predicament?
(a) With a sense of adventure.
(b) By trying to contact the authorities with his cell phone.
(c) With a sense of anticipation.
(d) With fear.

14. Why does the author do what he does on his wedding night?
(a) He and his wife are camping.
(b) He is depressed.
(c) His wife falls asleep first.
(d) He and his wife love to skydive.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ruth tell Dan to do in her note?

2. What does Mama Chia do after Dan has slept for 36 hours?

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

4. Simply put, what are Dan's instructions when he gets to Makapuu Beach?

5. What does the basic self become?

(see the answer keys)

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