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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 will people need to overcome their restlessness?
(a) more consciousness of the meaning of experiences
(b) more new challenges to face
(c) more reading of the Manuscript
(d) more time spent alone

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

3. What has preceded Dobson on this trip to Peru?
(a) an act of Congress
(b) a letter to the Peruvian government
(c) an appeal from the president
(d) the cooperation of the embassy

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator not get out of the taxi at his hotel?

2. Why does the narrator call the police?

3. What does Dobson tell the narrator to do?

4. What does the historian say should be more important than studying actions in the past?

5. Outside with the narrator, what does Charlene become aware of?

(see the answer key)

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