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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 Mama Chia declare about her, Dan and Socrates?
(a) They are soul mates.
(b) They have the combined wisdom of an avatar.
(c) They are not from this planet.
(d) They are to teach the world.

2. What task does Mama Chia give Dan?
(a) To live yesterday for tomorrow.
(b) To leap 30 feet across a dizzying chasm to a ledge and doorway on the other side.
(c) To re-dig his grave but make it an altar instead.
(d) To strive for understanding.

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

4. What does Dan resolve?
(a) To repair the relationships in his own family.
(b) To live a better life.
(c) To return to Hawaii every year.
(d) To stay and care for Mama Chia.

5. 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) Sleeping.
(d) Paddling away on a surfboard.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Mama Chia, Sachi and Dan go?

2. What does Mama Chia say one reason is for her relationship with Dan?

3. As Mama Chia hurries among gravestones and speaks with new urgency, what does Dan feel?

4. What childhood horror does Dan relive?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What task does Mama Chia give Dan and how does he handle it?

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

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

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

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

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

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