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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. To which self does survival, creativity, and power belong?
(a) The Nurturing Self.
(b) The Needy Self.
(c) The Basic Self.
(d) The Aware Self.

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

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

4. What is Sachi doing?
(a) Waiting on the other side to take care of Dan's cuts.
(b) Clinging to the far ledge and calling for help as the tiger paces nearby.
(c) Paddling away on a surfboard.
(d) Sleeping.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Dan awaken?

2. What is Fuji's best move for a fight?

3. What does Dan feel at the end of chapter 12?

4. What does Dan feel?

5. Of what does the storekeeper warn Dan?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Dan realize he has to do and what do you think that means?

2. What do you think Mama Chia means when she says one must clean the lower floors before ascending to higher floors?

3. To whom does Mama Chia want Dan to be grateful and what does that mean?

4. How does Mama Chia say shape shifting works and explain what you think she means.

5. What happens with Dan and the punks and do you think it will have significance later?

6. What do you think Mama Chia means when she says that "The Great Leap" is frightful, but above the heart, it becomes "an elevator ride?"

7. Explain Mama Chia's thoughts about who she, Dan and Socrates are.

8. What is foreshadowed in this section?

9. Describe Dan's experience of "rebirth."

10. What vision does Dan have as he meditates by the waterfall?

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