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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 Johanna reveal herself to be?

2. What is the first step to freeing one's self from the occult?

3. Does Johanna ever see Pachita again after visiting Europe?

4. Are many of the author's points absolute?

5. What is the eternal question we are asked as the book closes?

Short Essay Questions

1. How should believers test their community leaders and religious leaders?

2. According to Johanna, why is it so easy for many people to be misled by occultism.

3. What important character is Johanna introduced to after she joins the Light and Power House?

4. Is Johanna the only person who believes there is evil lurking in Hermanito's work?

5. How can the inner witness be infallible?

6. What happens to many Christian and community leaders?

7. How does the tone shift in this section of the novel?

8. As the book closes, what does the author ultimately claim to know?

9. What is the "inner witness" that the author present to the reader?

10. How does Johanna determine that her old beliefs are incorrect?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Ultimately, Johanna comes to believe that the theater is related to occult-like behavior.

1. How do Johanna's personal experiences in theaters, cause her to draw this conclusion?

2. Describe two specific events that Johanna has in theaters.

3. Who else from the book would agree with Johanna's assertions?

Essay Topic 2

A theme of deception and disguise has a very powerful presence throughout the book. Choose two of the characters below and describe how they successfully or unsuccessfully mask their true selves.

Pachita

Hermanito

Tom

Damon

Dr. Carlos

Essay Topic 3

There are extremely distinct style and tone shifts throughout Johanna's narrative.

1. State the four different styles that Johanna shifts between.

2. What sections have which tones associated with them?

3. How does Johanna weave her tale but also concisely change the tone of the novel?

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