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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the main thing that keeps Dan looking after feeling quite discouraged?
(a) Discipline.
(b) Intuition.
(c) Curiousity.
(d) Stupidity.

2. What cure does Ruth prescribe for Dan?
(a) A tanning booth.
(b) A sauna.
(c) A barefoot walk in the surf.
(d) A barefoot walk on coals.

3. What are the Basic Self, Conscious Self and Higher Self?
(a) The three selves.
(b) The way to enlightenment.
(c) A way of explaining the relationship between god and humans.
(d) The concept talked about in the secret ways.

4. Who is Ruth Johnson?
(a) An older woman in a muumuu.
(b) A lawyer.
(c) The young bank teller with whom Millman has dinner.
(d) A psychiatrist.

5. What is the major difference between the author and his wife, Linda?
(a) She is comfortable in the "conventional" world and he is not.
(b) She is meticulous and organized and he is sloppy.
(c) He is comfortable in the "conventional" world and she is not.
(d) He is meticulous and organized and she is sloppy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has bothered Dan since the surfboard incident?

2. What color does Dan's belly glow?

3. What is one thing the Advaita Vendanta teach?

4. What does Dan find at the end of chapter 4?

5. What does Mama Chia think Dan is strong enough to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Chapter four opens with what quote and what do you think it means?

2. Dan says he would trade enlightenment for one glass of "pure, cool, quenching water." What do you think this says about the human condition?

3. What does the college give Dan and where does he go?

4. How does Ruth respond to Dan's appearance at the party and what do you think this foreshadows?

5. What does Dan realize he must do at this time in his life?

6. Why do you think Mama Chia resumes her work as midwife and kahuna after receiving a letter from Socrates about Dan?

7. What is the phrase that Ruth uses that catches Dan's attention and how would you characterize their encounter?

8. What does Dan do while in India?

9. What is the irony of Dan's situation out on the vast Pacific Ocean?

10. What does Mama Chia tell Dan after waking him from sleeping for 36 hours, and what do you think she means?

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