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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. What does the narrator learn about the priest Charlene met once?
(a) He was murdered.
(b) He went into hiding.
(c) He is in prison.
(d) He left the country.

2. How does Dobson say the Middle Ages were defined?
(a) by theprinting press
(b) by ignorance and disease
(c) by the art and drama of the period
(d) by the Christian Church

3. Who is Wayne Dobson whom the narrator meets on the flight to Peru?
(a) an archeologist going to a dig in Peru
(b) an explorer who is interested in the value of the Manuscript
(c) an assistant professor of history from New York University
(d) a translater of archaic languages

4. What are the people in the novel either searching for or trying to suppress?
(a) tablets of stone older than the Ten Commandments
(b) an archeologist who found the Manuscript
(c) a document they call the Manuscript
(d) an ancient Incan stela with magic powers

5. What has Wayne Dobson found when he went to see a priest that never showed up?
(a) copies of the First and Second Insights
(b) a decree from the Cardinal to destroy the Manuscript
(c) a map to the location of the Manuscript
(d) a suicide note written by the priest

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What coincidence happens when the narrator gets up to go to the restroom?

3. What is Charlene doing when the narrator arrives at the restaurant?

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

5. What will the restlessness cause people to do?

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