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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Mama Chia say Dan will help for a few days?
(a) Kalaupapa.
(b) With the storekeeper.
(c) At her farm.
(d) The caves of Molokai.

2. What do Mama Chia and Dan do with the thousands of starfish washed up on the beach?
(a) Collect a few to dry out.
(b) Leave them to their karma.
(c) Take pictures.
(d) Rescue as many as possible.

3. What has Dan failed to enter?
(a) The well.
(b) The path of life.
(c) Nirvana.
(d) The fourth floor.

4. Who are aware at birth?
(a) All creatures.
(b) All humans.
(c) Genuine masters.
(d) No one.

5. What does Dan do just before darkness falls?
(a) Screams
(b) Lies down on a sheet beside the grave.
(c) Lies down on a sheet beside the well.
(d) Sobs.

6. What is Fuji's best move for a fight?
(a) A one-two punch followed by a kick to the groin.
(b) A kick followed by a punch.
(c) Shaking hands and asking to be friends.
(d) Turning and running.

7. As Mama Chia hurries among gravestones and speaks with new urgency, what does Dan feel?
(a) Terror.
(b) Awe.
(c) Anger.
(d) Indifference.

8. Where is Dan assigned to work?
(a) At the clinic.
(b) Bathing patients.
(c) In the kitchen.
(d) Clearing the garden.

9. With what does Dan struggle as they are walking along the cliff?
(a) Lack of faith.
(b) Depression.
(c) Vertigo.
(d) Anger.

10. What does Dan feel?
(a) Gratitude.
(b) Frisky.
(c) Despondency.
(d) The nature spirits everywhere.

11. How does Dan embrace life after facing death?
(a) Through plunging off the cliff into the ocean.
(b) Through sexual energy.
(c) Through writing a poem.
(d) By singing a paen to the gods of the island.

12. When Dan stops being an observer to become part of the community, what happens?
(a) He realizes how shallow he is.
(b) He stops worrying about catching leprosy.
(c) He is ready to leave.
(d) He understands Mama Chia's purpose.

13. To what do some peaceful warrior souls agree?
(a) Not returning to earth again.
(b) To endure mortal life for eons, reminding people of who they are.
(c) Residing in hell to save those souls there.
(d) Immortality.

14. To where does Dan go in his mind?
(a) To the fourth pinnacle.
(b) To a windy, stark plateau at the base of a white tower.
(c) To his childhood.
(d) To the surfboard experience.

15. What does the third window show?
(a) Order, balance, and creativity.
(b) Balance and justice.
(c) Creativity and stasis.
(d) Order and disorder.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do four Hawaiian punks do?

2. What does the Tower represent?

3. What is Sachi doing?

4. What task does Mama Chia give Dan?

5. What self is represented by the heart?

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