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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) By singing a paen to the gods of the island.
(b) Through plunging off the cliff into the ocean.
(c) Through sexual energy.
(d) Through writing a poem.

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

3. What does the first window show?
(a) Pain.
(b) Hostility.
(c) Strength.
(d) Compassion.

4. How does Dan feel about being naked when Mama Chia appears?
(a) Embarrassed.
(b) Joyous.
(c) Not ashamed.
(d) Confused.

5. As Mama Chia hurries among gravestones and speaks with new urgency, what does Dan feel?
(a) Anger.
(b) Indifference.
(c) Awe.
(d) Terror.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mama Chia do to her pet bird?

2. What are an Indian leper, a French drunk, a suburban teen sniffing drugs, and a dying African baby?

3. What does Dan resolve?

4. What must one do every day?

5. What do four Hawaiian punks do?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How does the level at which Dan is in this section manifest in sexual energy?

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

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

8. What is foreshadowed in this section?

9. Explain the incident with the starfish and the possible meaning of it.

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

(see the answer keys)

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