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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 does Dan realize about the lower floors?

2. To where does Mama Chia take Dan?

3. What does Dan feel at the end of chapter 12?

4. Out of what can one do for others on a level where altruism and love do not yet exist?

5. What does the world mirror?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the path to the heart? Does this seem difficult?

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

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

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

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

6. What do you think Mama Chia means when she says one must clean the lower floors before ascending to higher floors?

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

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

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

10. What does the third level concern?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Besides being a retired banker, Mama Chia is also a midwife, who is busy bringing a new life into the world while Dan is recuperating from exposure and dehydration. Discuss one of the following:

What are the parallels between Dan's surfboard experience and Mama Chia bringing a new baby into the world?

Discuss the seeming paradox that Mama Chia works for and retires from a bank and is also a shaman and midwife.

What do you think Dan needs to birth?

Essay Topic 3

Dan encounters "Beer Belly" (Kimo) and they become friends. Discuss the following:

What are the ways Dan makes it possible for the encounter with Kimo to turn out in a positive way?

What might Dan have done that could have made the encounter conclude with a less-than-desirable end?

What do you think Dan learns from Kimo?

What do you think Kimo learns from Dan?

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