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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, A Matter of Energy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Manuscript predict?
(a) the arrival of space aliens
(b) a major world war by 2020
(c) a change in human society in the late twentieth century
(d) the end of the world in 1999

2. What is Charlene doing when the narrator arrives at the restaurant?
(a) reading copies of the Manuscript
(b) talking on the phone
(c) talking with two policemen
(d) looking at her watch

3. What does the historian say should be more important than studying actions in the past?
(a) studying roads and houses
(b) studying beliefs and superstitions
(c) studying thoughts and feelings
(d) studying educational trends

4. What happens while the narrator is running away?
(a) He runs behind a bus and disappears.
(b) A man stops him and takes him to a safe house.
(c) He feels the wind of pullets past his ears.
(d) He loses one of his shoes.

5. What happens when researchers use their own energy to add to the energy around the plants, and show concern for the plants?
(a) They affect the way plants grow.
(b) They get very tired.
(c) They get plants to emit sounds.
(d) They create an electric generator.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is easier at sunrise or sunset?

2. What does Dobson say scientists try to do?

3. What does the narrator promise Charlene?

4. How many Insights does Charlene say the Manuscript contains?

5. What is the Peruvian government's attitude toward the Manuscript?

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