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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Out of what can one do for others on a level where altruism and love do not yet exist?
(a) Out of guilt.
(b) Out of a desire to look good to others.
(c) Out of a desire to go to heaven.
(d) Out of duty and responsibility.

2. How is she determined to live?
(a) Under a doctor's care.
(b) She is determined to heal herself.
(c) Fully until she dies.
(d) Carefully.

3. What does Mama Chia do to her pet bird?
(a) Feed it grubs.
(b) Let it go free.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Crush it.

4. What childhood horror does Dan relive?
(a) Of his dog dying slowly.
(b) Of being locked in a storage trunk by bullies.
(c) Of being lost at a store and not being able to find his mama.
(d) Of his father accidentally being killed in front of him.

5. What does the Tower represent?
(a) The inability of humans to become one.
(b) The Evil inside each of us.
(c) The way to ascendancy.
(d) The chakras.

6. What does Mama Chia tell Tia?
(a) That the baby will be free of leprosy.
(b) That Mama Chia has found a home for the baby that she must give up after birth.
(c) That she may die soon.
(d) That she is almost well.

7. What are an Indian leper, a French drunk, a suburban teen sniffing drugs, and a dying African baby?
(a) Four scenes through which Dan moves in the white tower.
(b) Four people who confront Dan about his life.
(c) Dan's four alter egos.
(d) Mama Chia's images of Dan.

8. What does Mama Chia tell Dan?
(a) Leprosy is not the issue.
(b) Death comes to all.
(c) Not to show fear or revulsion.
(d) Leprosy is not contagious.

9. What does the second window show?
(a) Pain.
(b) Pleasure.
(c) Grief.
(d) Hostility.

10. What does Dan call one of the punks?
(a) Beer belly.
(b) Punkie.
(c) Twit.
(d) Brother.

11. What does Mama Chia declare about her, Dan and Socrates?
(a) They have the combined wisdom of an avatar.
(b) They are to teach the world.
(c) They are soul mates.
(d) They are not from this planet.

12. Why should Dan meditate by the waterfall?
(a) So the sound blocks out his thoughts.
(b) If he needs to prove something to himself.
(c) To really hear the waterfall.
(d) No particular reason.

13. According to Mama Chia, what does shape shifting involve?
(a) Transferring consciousness and forming deep empathy and awareness.
(b) Believing at the heart level that you are what you want to become.
(c) Shape Shifting is merely metaphoric.
(d) Getting a good costume.

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

15. Who does Mama Chia invoke?
(a) The Great Spirit.
(b) The god Peli.
(c) Jesus.
(d) The guardians of the ways.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the shadow side of the second floor as fear is of the first?

2. How does Dan feel about being naked when Mama Chia appears?

3. What does Mama Chia draw?

4. To where does Mama Chia take Dan?

5. The third level is about what?

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