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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. If Dan fails in the task Mama Chia gives him, what will happen?
(a) He will succeed just from trying.
(b) He will try again.
(c) He will feel pain and part of him will die.
(d) He will know he is not yet ready for that floor.

2. What is the shadow side of the second floor as fear is of the first?
(a) Sorrow.
(b) Greed.
(c) Rage.
(d) Joy.

3. For what is Mama Chia at high risk?
(a) A stroke.
(b) TB.
(c) Leprosy.
(d) Nothing.

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

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

6. How does Dan feel about being naked when Mama Chia appears?
(a) Joyous.
(b) Not ashamed.
(c) Confused.
(d) Embarrassed.

7. The third level is about what?
(a) The need for power.
(b) Power to give life as well as to take it.
(c) Power over impulses and desires of the ego.
(d) Power to create.

8. Why do they borrow a truck?
(a) To go to a large waterfall.
(b) Because Mama Chia is tired.
(c) To go into Kaunakakai to shop.
(d) To go to the mainland.

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

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

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

12. Who has guarded Molokai for four centuries?
(a) Hanuukia.
(b) Peli.
(c) Lauuina.
(d) Lanikaula.

13. What does each floor represent?
(a) Nothing.
(b) A path to god.
(c) A way to meditate.
(d) An expanded state of awareness.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Tower represent?

2. To which self does survival, creativity, and power belong?

3. What does the first window show?

4. When does one ceases to practice a way and becomes The Way?

5. Until the fourth floor, around what are the many kinds of love centered?

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