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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Clearing the Past.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sarah want to know if the narrator can see?
(a) the pull of the plants on insects
(b) the energy between plants and some students
(c) the rows of extra large cabbages
(d) the difference between different plant species

2. What happens to Marjorie while she waits beside the road?
(a) She is shot.
(b) She faints.
(c) She is hit by a truck.
(d) She is arrested.

3. Why does the narrator eventually see that his parents were interrogators?
(a) remembering how they sat him down with a light in his eyes
(b) remembering how they never bluntly critisized his actions
(c) remembering their questions before correcting him
(d) remembering how they checked up on him through his friends

4. Why is Reneau interested in the Fourth Insight?
(a) because four is his lucky number
(b) because it concerns conflict between people
(c) because he knows someone who has the first three
(d) because he heard it was about psychology

5. What does Reneau say the girl accomplishes by throwing the pie?
(a) trying to get the narrator's attention
(b) getting back some of her energy
(c) putting on a comedy show
(d) showing she is ready to leave home

Short Answer Questions

1. What sudden decision does the narrator make once he returns home?

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

3. Why is the Manuscript in danger of disappearing?

4. In a feeling of euphoria, what happens to the narrator?

5. How does Dobson explain the Second Insight?

(see the answer key)

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