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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, The Struggle for Power.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the preoccupation Dobson says is keeping humans from understanding the First Insight?
(a) the preoccupation with entertainment
(b) the preoccupation with religion
(c) the preoccupation of making a living
(d) the preoccupation with security

2. How has the Third Insight been used experimentally at Viciente Lodge?
(a) to measure energy fields
(b) to affect the way plants grow
(c) to produce electricity from plant energy
(d) to keep the wrong people out

3. Who found the Manuscript and translated it?
(a) a British archeologist
(b) Wil James
(c) the priest, Jose
(d) Wayne Dobson

4. What does Wil finally give the narrator after they leave Cula?
(a) a copy of the Fourth Insight
(b) a pistol for self-protection
(c) a survival kit for the mountains
(d) a serious lecture about stealing energy

5. Why does the physics professor, Sarah Lorner, come to Viciente Lodge?
(a) to find rare plants
(b) to study the effects of energy on plant life
(c) to get specimins for her laboratory
(d) to study wind resistence of trees

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the man who rescues the Narrator?

2. With all the information the narrator got from Charlene, why does he go out into the garden?

3. What are the people in the novel either searching for or trying to suppress?

4. What is the Peruvian government's attitude toward the Manuscript?

5. What does the narrator believe he understands now?

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