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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. With all the information the narrator got from Charlene, why does he go out into the garden?
(a) to smoke a cigar
(b) to breathe the fresh air
(c) to clear his head
(d) to check on the weather

2. 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 suicide note written by the priest
(c) a decree from the Cardinal to destroy the Manuscript
(d) a map to the location of the Manuscript

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

4. What happens when people start to question the church?
(a) the church launches persecution
(b) society turns from the spiritual to the scientific
(c) society begins to fall apart
(d) society becomes totally atheistic

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the estimated date the Manuscript was written?

2. What does the narrator see as he continues to run from the gunfire?

3. Who found the Manuscript and translated it?

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

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

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