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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. During her travels abroad, what does Johanna frequently experience?

2. How does Johanna's tone change in the last section of the book?

3. What is the second step to freeing one's self from the occult?

4. Who was the author unable to connect with?

5. What does Hermanito hate about Pachita?

Short Essay Questions

1. While with the Mind Control group, what does Johanna think that Hermanito's surgeries are?

2. Why is the title of the section, "Exodus," symbolic?

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

4. What does Johanna see in Hermanito's eyes in the section entitled "The Beautiful Side of Evil?"

5. As Johanna continues to work with Pachita, who does Johanna feel she is having difficulty connecting with?

6. Upon returning to the United States, what groups does Johanna begin to join?

7. How did Pachita and Hermanito first come together into their practice?

8. What makes Pachita's healing amazing to the people that witness them?

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

10. While operating on Johanna's friend, David, what happens to Hermanito?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast Pachita and Hermanito. How do the two entities share one body?

Do they seem to get along with one another?

How are the two entities like minded but also confused about their existence within one another?

Essay Topic 2

1. Compare the characters of Damon and Beck.

2. How are they similar and different from one another?

3. Why do you think the author chose to use pseudonyms for both characters?

4. Explain the term literary "foil." How does the author establish Damon and Beck to be foils for one another?

Essay Topic 3

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

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