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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. To where does Mama Chia lead Dan?
(a) To the ocean.
(b) To a ridge.
(c) To a real tower.
(d) To a cave.

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

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

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

6. What does Dan's disembodied self do?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Levitates onto the shroud-like sheet.
(c) Stands and looks at his body.
(d) Flies into the heavens.

7. What does Dan feel at the end of chapter 12?
(a) Peace.
(b) Depression.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Anger.

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

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

10. What task does Mama Chia give Dan?
(a) To leap 30 feet across a dizzying chasm to a ledge and doorway on the other side.
(b) To live yesterday for tomorrow.
(c) To re-dig his grave but make it an altar instead.
(d) To strive for understanding.

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

12. What must one do every day?
(a) Go through a re-birth.
(b) Live to die.
(c) Choose to master the energy of life or squander it.
(d) Die to live.

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

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

15. When Dan awakes on the other side, what happens?
(a) His injuries disappear.
(b) He is stronger.
(c) He is weak and needs help arising.
(d) He has a broken leg.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what do some peaceful warrior souls agree?

2. As Mama Chia hurries among gravestones and speaks with new urgency, what does Dan feel?

3. How has Mama Chia made peace with being comfortable?

4. What does Mama Chia tell Dan?

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

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