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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is so painful during Dan's time on the surfboard?
(a) His sunburned body.
(b) The realization of his stupidity.
(c) The realization of his impending death.
(d) Knowing his daughter would grow up without him.

2. For what does Dan listen?
(a) A shark.
(b) Waves crashing on the shore.
(c) A rescue boat or helicopter.
(d) Civilization.

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

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

5. What American statesman does Mama Chia quote in chapter 5?
(a) Benjamin Franklin.
(b) Abe Lincoln.
(c) Alexander Hamilton.
(d) George Washington.

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

7. What does Mama Chia see as hidden gifts?
(a) Painful physical challenges she suffers as a child.
(b) The unconscious.
(c) Death and rebirth.
(d) The way human beings do not believe in their deaths.

8. Everyone the author looks, what does he see?
(a) Prosperity.
(b) Joy and optimism.
(c) Beggars.
(d) Others searching for something, too.

9. 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.

10. Of what does Fuji have to let go?
(a) His wife.
(b) Everything he lost in a fire.
(c) His daughter.
(d) His dead son.

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

12. What does Mama Chia say when Dan tells her he is drained and depressed?
(a) That it's his mirror self feeling that.
(b) That he isn't really feeling that.
(c) That he is on the right track.
(d) That he has to let go.

13. What is a fakir?
(a) A person who demonstrates unusual abilities.
(b) Someone who is a leader of his spiritual group.
(c) Someone who fakes magic.
(d) A governmental authority in India.

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

15. Who takes care of Dan when he is recovering from his days at sea?
(a) Chia.
(b) Maaia.
(c) Sei.
(d) Sachi.

Short Answer Questions

1. For whom does Mitsu yell?

2. What happened that made Dan go out so foolishly unprepared?

3. With what has Mama Chia put Dan in touch?

4. Who is Victor?

5. For what is Molokai most known?

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