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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 has Dan failed to enter?

2. Who has guarded Molokai for four centuries?

3. What childhood horror does Dan relive?

4. What does the first window show?

5. Who does Mama Chia invoke?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is foreshadowed in this section?

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

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

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

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

7. What does the third level concern?

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

9. What do you think Mama Chia means when she says that "The Great Leap" is frightful, but above the heart, it becomes "an elevator ride?"

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Mama Chia tells a story about Sachi, who goes up to her baby brother and asks, "'Baby, tell me what God feels like. I'm starting to forget.'" Discuss the following:

What do you think this story means?

Do you think traditional religions would have an explanation for this story?

Do you think infants and young children are closer to God than older children and adults? Why or why not?

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

Trace images of the Basic Self throughout the text and thoroughly analyze it and the symbols associated with it.

Trace images of the Conscious Self throughout the text and thoroughly analyze it and the symbols associated with it.

Trace images of the Higher Self throughout the text and thoroughly analyze it and the symbols associated with it.

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