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

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

3. Where do Mama Chia, Sachi and Dan go?
(a) To Maui.
(b) To the Big Island.
(c) To the Fujumoto's home.
(d) To Oahu.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does each floor represent?

2. What do four Hawaiian punks do?

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

4. What does the first window show?

5. What does the third window show?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mama Chia answer Dan's question about having money and supporting his family?

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

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

4. Does Dan change his mind about the settlement? How?

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

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

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

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

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

10. What does Dan say about himself at the beginning of chapter 13, and what do you think he means?

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