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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What self is represented by the heart?
(a) The Feeling Self.
(b) The Emotional Self.
(c) The Higher Self.
(d) The Caring Self.

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

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

4. Who is Dan's guardian angel?
(a) His deceased grandmother.
(b) Socrates.
(c) His higher self.
(d) Michael.

5. What happens when Mama Chia throws the bird in the air.
(a) It falls to the ground dead.
(b) It flutters its wings and then lands on her shoulder.
(c) Nothing; it is unharmed.
(d) It flies out to sea.

6. When does one ceases to practice a way and becomes The Way?
(a) Just before enlightenment.
(b) When the person and god are one.
(c) When one is content serving others.
(d) After ascension.

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

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

9. Where is Dan at the opening to chapter 13?
(a) He is on the plane back to Ohio.
(b) He is uncertain.
(c) He is lying with his head in Mama Chia's lap.
(d) He is back on the surfboard.

10. What does Mama Chia say one reason is for her relationship with Dan?
(a) She grows as he grows.
(b) She assists others through Dan.
(c) She does not say anything in particular.
(d) She learns about America from Dan.

11. Where has Dan been?
(a) He has been to read the Akashic records.
(b) He has been to his own hell and faced his demons.
(c) He has been asleep.
(d) He has been to heaven and understood all things.

12. What does Dan realize about the lower floors?
(a) He must accept his higher self.
(b) He must live on the lower floors though he visits the higher ones.
(c) He must organize the clutter.
(d) He must accept what is rather than cling to illusions.

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

14. To whom does Mama Chia wish Dan to be grateful?
(a) The goddess.
(b) No one.
(c) Himself.
(d) Source.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Mama Chia and Dan do with the thousands of starfish washed up on the beach?

2. What does Dan think is one reason Socrates sends him to Mama Chia?

3. What childhood horror does Dan relive?

4. Where do Mama Chia, Sachi and Dan go?

5. Why do they borrow a truck?

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