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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What grant is Millman awarded?

2. At what time of the year does Millman arrive in Delhi?

3. What are the Basic Self, Conscious Self and Higher Self?

4. What does Mama Chia say about the energies?

5. Everyone the author looks, what does he see?

Short Essay Questions

1. How has Mama Chia been healing Dan and what do you think of her method?

2. Why does Dan decide to stop over in Hawaii and what do you think is the reason for his layover?

3. Why do you think Sachi asks her little brother to tell her about God?

4. Did you think it is smart of Dan to just mount a surfboard and go out from shore having no experience with this kind of activity?

5. What is Dan's ultimate conclusion about his time in India?

6. How does Dan decide to commence his search for the woman of whom Socrates had once told Dan, and do you think that is a logical solution?

7. How does Dan feel about his personal connection to India?

8. Describe Dan's experience in his dreamlike state in chapter 7 and his reaction to the dream.

9. What is the phrase that Ruth uses that catches Dan's attention and how would you characterize their encounter?

10. Why do you think Mama Chia resumes her work as midwife and kahuna after receiving a letter from Socrates about Dan?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Once Dan has found Ruth Johnson, she gives him a note with some instructions. Discuss the following:

Do you think Dan is wise to blindly follow the note which has him do something that is quite foolhardy?

Given that Dan later learns that he lost part of the note and he was supposed to take food, water and sunscreen, do you think if he had had the complete set of instructions from the beginning he would have been justified in following the path he chooses?

There is a aphorism, "no pain, no gain." Does this saying apply in Dan's experience with the surfboard?

Essay Topic 2

Mama Chia tells about her friend, Fuji, whose love is photography, who after 30 years loses everything in a fire, but having learned to see life as beauty and harmony, gets over the loss. Discuss the following:

What losses has Dan suffered that would be difficult to let go of?

Often when there is a loss, a gain fills the void. What does Dan gain that fills any loss he suffers?

Have you had a time when you suffered what seems to be an unbearable loss and gained something precious in its place. Explain.

How have you dealt with one significant loss in your life?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss one of the following:

Compare and contrast Dan as who he is at the beginning of the book to who he seems to be at the end of the book.

Compare and contrast Mama Chia's spiritual ideas with those of your own.

Compare and contrast Dan's experience on the surfboard with the most harrowing experience you have had and what you both learned from your experience.

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