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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What schools does Millman attend regularly?
(a) Schools of yoga.
(b) Schools for learning about the flora and fauna of India.
(c) None.
(d) Schools about India's history and culture.

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

5. At what time of the year does Millman arrive in Delhi?
(a) The monsoon season.
(b) Early summer.
(c) The holy season.
(d) The hot, dry season.

6. What is one overwhelming impression Millman has of India?
(a) The peace and quiet.
(b) The modern cities.
(c) The huge numbers of people.
(d) The alternating cold and warm climate.

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

8. What does Dan find at the end of chapter 4?
(a) A fishing pole entangled in kelp.
(b) A floating bottle of water.
(c) A dead albatross.
(d) A shore.

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

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

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

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

13. What does Sachi ask her baby brother?
(a) To go with her to a new island.
(b) To tell her what God feels like.
(c) To help her convince her parents to let her travel alone.
(d) To help her learn about nature.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What becomes an obsession to Dan?

2. What has bothered Dan since the surfboard incident?

3. What does the author do for a job right after graduation?

4. Why has Dan no sense of time or bearings?

5. Why does Dan enjoy spending time with Sachi?

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