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

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

3. What do the energized plants offer humans?
(a) ways to see in the dark
(b) psychological insights
(c) more nutrients for the body to absorb when they are eaten
(d) a close identity with plant life

4. Who is studying the effects these energized plants have on the people who eat them?
(a) a microbiologist
(b) a botanist
(c) a nutritionist
(d) an astronomer

5. What does the narrator see as he continues to run from the gunfire?
(a) He sees some armed civilians.
(b) He sees Peruvian troops.
(c) He sees a church door open.
(d) He sees Dobson fall.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who found the Manuscript and translated it?

2. Why does Phil teach the narrator to stare at his own fingers?

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

4. Why is Dobson returning to Peru?

5. What does Wilson James say he wants to find?

(see the answer key)

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