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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What color does Dan's belly glow?
(a) Brown.
(b) Green.
(c) Red.
(d) Yellow.
2. What does Socrates predict in a letter?
(a) That Dan will be easy to sway to Mama Chia's ways.
(b) That Dan will be hard on himself and excitable.
(c) That Dan will die in Hawaii.
(d) That Mama Chia will not have success with Dan.
3. What schools does Millman attend regularly?
(a) Schools for learning about the flora and fauna of India.
(b) Schools of yoga.
(c) None.
(d) Schools about India's history and culture.
4. Who does Millman meet outside the last bank he visits?
(a) A native Hawaiian man.
(b) A professor from Stanford.
(c) His wife.
(d) A woman in her sixties walking with a cane.
5. Why does Dan enjoy spending time with Sachi?
(a) He misses his daughter.
(b) She is so funny.
(c) She doesn't have any expectations of him.
(d) She is wise beyond her years.
6. Once Mama Chia has taken Dan to the edge and points the way, what does he have to do?
(a) Close his eyes and leap.
(b) The same thing as on the surfboard.
(c) Open his eyes and leap.
(d) Nothing.
7. What becomes an obsession to Dan?
(a) Rescue.
(b) Thirst.
(c) Finding a direction.
(d) Revenge.
8. What is going on at the house when Dan arrives?
(a) A seance.
(b) A wake.
(c) A party.
(d) A funeral.
9. What is the main thing that keeps Dan looking after feeling quite discouraged?
(a) Intuition.
(b) Stupidity.
(c) Curiousity.
(d) Discipline.
10. What does Ruth say that gets Dan's attention as he is leaving the juice stand?
(a) Nice is the day to create.
(b) A nice day is having you.
(c) Have a nice day.
(d) Create a nice day.
11. What has bothered Dan since the surfboard incident?
(a) The ocean.
(b) The idea of faith.
(c) The idea of death.
(d) Mama Chia's lackadaisical mannerisms.
12. What fades in the author's memories as he leads a "normal" life?
(a) His memories of fighting in Viet Nam.
(b) His past life as a Tibetan monk.
(c) His encounter with Socrates.
(d) His father's death.
13. What lesson from Socrates does the author have difficulty following in this early part of the book?
(a) Being in the present moment.
(b) Compassion.
(c) Detachment.
(d) Meditation.
14. What does Mama Chia draw in the sand?
(a) A pentagram.
(b) Leonardo da Vinci's figure of a man in a circle.
(c) A square.
(d) A horse.
15. What grant is Millman awarded?
(a) A trust grant.
(b) A land deed grant.
(c) A stock option grant.
(d) A travel grant.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the feeling of stagnation?
2. Simply put, what are Dan's instructions when he gets to Makapuu Beach?
3. How has Mama Chia been speeding Dan's healing?
4. When do Mama Chia's parents die?
5. After Stanford, where does the author accept a teaching position?
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