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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Millman hope to find in the few days he decides to spend in Hawaii on his way home from India?
(a) Socrates.
(b) A way to reconnect with his inner being.
(c) Some healing.
(d) Contact with the local culture.

2. With what has Mama Chia put Dan in touch?
(a) God.
(b) Another man on a similar journey.
(c) Dan's daughter.
(d) His inner records.

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

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

5. Why does Millman become more dejected as time passes on his travels?
(a) He thinks everyone he meets is a hypocrite.
(b) He cannot make any lasting connections.
(c) He finds nothing that isn't available in the West in bookstores.
(d) He is overwhelmed by the different paths one can take to enlightment.

6. What does the author do for a job right after graduation?
(a) Practices law.
(b) Sells cars.
(c) Computer programmer.
(d) Sells insurance.

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

8. According to Socrates, how is charity most effective?
(a) In places where people help themselves.
(b) With the most money.
(c) With the right leverage.
(d) It is generally not effective.

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

10. What is the board like that Dan finds?
(a) Like the ones the old Hawaiians used.
(b) A dented, fiberglass board that is slightly too short for his frame.
(c) He cannot find a board.
(d) A new slick, fiberglass board.

11. 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) Rouses him.
(d) Sends him on a mystical journey.

12. What happened that made Dan go out so foolishly unprepared?
(a) He lost the second page of Ruth's note.
(b) He thought he was tougher than he is.
(c) He was suicidal.
(d) He thought Ruth would think him strong if he took nothing on the journey.

13. What does Ruth tell Dan to do in her note?
(a) Come back in three days.
(b) Go meditate for three days on top of Peli.
(c) Go ride a surfboard.
(d) Go home to his wife and daughter.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At what time of the year does Millman arrive in Delhi?

2. For what is Molokai most known?

3. What is it that Ruth suggest Dan needs in this situation?

4. What cure does Ruth prescribe for Dan?

5. Everyone the author looks, what does he see?

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