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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the feeling of stagnation?
(a) A waste of energy.
(b) The hope of moving forward.
(c) A means of staying quiet to heal.
(d) The soul getting a running start.

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How has Mama Chia been speeding Dan's healing?
(a) By evoking the goddess of healing.
(b) With drugs.
(c) With meditation.
(d) By working with his basic self.

11. What is going on at the house when Dan arrives?
(a) A wake.
(b) A seance.
(c) A party.
(d) A funeral.

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

13. After Stanford, where does the author accept a teaching position?
(a) University of Georgia.
(b) Swarthmore.
(c) Oberlin College.
(d) University of Ohio.

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

15. What does the conscious self become?
(a) A rainbow.
(b) A robot.
(c) A wheel.
(d) An arch.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who takes care of Dan when he is recovering from his days at sea?

2. What does Mama Chia say when Dan tells her he is drained and depressed?

3. Who is having a baby in chapter 5?

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

5. How does the The Basic Self use pain?

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