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

2. With what does Dan struggle as they are walking along the cliff?
(a) Anger.
(b) Vertigo.
(c) Depression.
(d) Lack of faith.

3. Out of what can one do for others on a level where altruism and love do not yet exist?
(a) Out of guilt.
(b) Out of a desire to look good to others.
(c) Out of duty and responsibility.
(d) Out of a desire to go to heaven.

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

5. Until the fourth floor, around what are the many kinds of love centered?
(a) Sex.
(b) Compassion.
(c) Empathy.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Dan assigned to work?

2. According to Mama Chia, what does shape shifting involve?

3. Why do they borrow a truck?

4. What does Dan do just before darkness falls?

5. How does Dan feel about being naked when Mama Chia appears?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mama Chia say about second-floor energies?

2. What is foreshadowed in this section?

3. What is the path to the heart? Does this seem difficult?

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

5. Where does Mama Chia take Dan to stay for a few days and what is his initial response?

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. From whom does Dan ask permission to be there and what do you think this is symbolic of?

8. Why do you think Dan dreads what lies ahead?

9. Who does Dan meet and what does he advice Dan to do about the bullies?

10. How does Mama Chia explain the Tower of Seven Floors?

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