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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, A Matter of Energy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Manuscript predict?
(a) the end of the world in 1999
(b) the arrival of space aliens
(c) a major world war by 2020
(d) a change in human society in the late twentieth century

2. Who is the man who rescues the Narrator?
(a) Wayne Dobson
(b) Wilson James
(c) Father Sanchez
(d) Police sergeat Ortiz

3. Why is Dobson returning to Peru?
(a) To prove the Manuscript is wrong.
(b) To look for the priest.
(c) To challenge the government.
(d) To find more Insights.

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

5. What happens as the narrator enters the hotel and sees Dobson?
(a) The police are arresting dobson.
(b) Gunfire breaks out.
(c) Dobson is talking to a priest.
(d) Dobson invites him for a drink.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the preoccupation Dobson says is keeping humans from understanding the First Insight?

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

3. What does Charlene tell the narrator about?

4. Why does the physics professor, Sarah Lorner, come to Viciente Lodge?

5. What does the narrator believe he understands now?

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