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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, The Longer Now.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Dobson explain the Second Insight?
(a) as a way to locate people
(b) as a new way of looking at our history
(c) as a new way to consider mathematics
(d) as a reason to keep looking for the Manuscript

2. What will the restlessness cause people to do?
(a) commit serious crimes
(b) take unnecessary risks
(c) demand too much from each other
(d) retreat into their shells

3. What does the narrator see as he continues to run from the gunfire?
(a) He sees Dobson fall.
(b) He sees Peruvian troops.
(c) He sees some armed civilians.
(d) He sees a church door open.

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

5. What coincidence happens when the narrator gets up to go to the restroom?
(a) He finds a copy of the First Insight in the magazine rack.
(b) He hears a man mention the Manuscript to a stewardess.
(c) He meets and old friend from his university.
(d) He hears someone talking about a disappeared priest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Charlene tell the narrator about?

2. What are the people in the novel either searching for or trying to suppress?

3. What happened to the priest Charlene went to see about the Manuscript?

4. As they prepare to go to separate hotels, what do Dobson and the narrator do?

5. What happened while Charlene was in the ladies' room?

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