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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 religion
(b) the preoccupation with security
(c) the preoccupation with entertainment
(d) the preoccupation of making a living

2. What does the narrator see during an argument between Sarah and the German?
(a) the grass around them turning brown
(b) their energy fields moving back and forth between them
(c) a brilliant flash of light
(d) a nearby tree begin to tremble

3. What happens while the narrator is running away?
(a) He loses one of his shoes.
(b) He runs behind a bus and disappears.
(c) A man stops him and takes him to a safe house.
(d) He feels the wind of pullets past his ears.

4. Where is Viciente Lodge located?
(a) in the Peruvian plains
(b) just outside of Lima
(c) in the Andes
(d) near the ocean

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator discover when he wakes the morning after camping with Wil and Reneau?

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

3. Who is studying the effects these energized plants have on the people who eat them?

4. How does Marjorie know that the narrator is interested in her?

5. Who is at the place where the narrator is supposed to meet Sarah the next morning?

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