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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. Where is Dan at the opening to chapter 13?

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

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

4. What is the shadow side of the second floor as fear is of the first?

5. What does Dan think is one reason Socrates sends him to Mama Chia?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does the third level concern?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

When Dan admits to Mama Chia that he is drained and depressed, she says that he is on the right track. Discuss one of the following:

How do you think something like depression or fatigue can mean one is on the right track in a search for spiritual enlightenment? Discuss fully with examples from the text and personal experience.

If Dan is on the right track as he is feeling drained and depressed, what do you think Mama Chia's response would be at this point in the book if Dan said he is elated and optimistic? Explain fully.

What can states of being such as depression teach someone? Elaborate fully.

Essay Topic 3

When Dan has a stopover in Hawaii, he decides to search for a woman about whom Socrates told him. Discuss the following:

How likely is it that Dan will find the woman for whom he is searching in a city of several hundred thousand (at that time)people? Do you think the fact that he finds her is miraculous or coincidental?

Dan might say his finding Ruth Johnson is not coincidental but rather serendipitous or perhaps meant to be. Discuss this idea.

What does it say about Dan or Dan's situation that he even attempts such a daunting task as finding a woman whose name, age, place of work or home is unknown in a city the size of Honolulu?

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