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

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

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

4. Why does the narrator call the police?
(a) to report the narrator's stolen car
(b) to report that someone shot at them but missed
(c) fear that the man watching means Charlene some harm
(d) to get them to fingerprint the found briefcase

5. What is the Peruvian government's attitude toward the Manuscript?
(a) that it does not exist
(b) that it must be preserved
(c) that it is a radical hoax
(d) that it belongs to the Peruvian people

Short Answer Questions

1. Who found the Manuscript and translated it?

2. What has always fascinated the narrator?

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

4. What does the narrator promise Charlene?

5. On the plane, what does the narrator say about understanding the Second Insight?

(see the answer key)

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