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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 has the narrator's aloofness kept him from doing?
(a) learning what Rolando knows
(b) speaking with Rolando
(c) saying too much to an enemy
(d) making a new friend

2. When being aloof ceases to work, why does one become a poor me?
(a) to make intimidators ashamed
(b) to change the subject
(c) to explain away misfortune
(d) to appeal to sympathy

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

4. What will the restlessness cause people to do?
(a) commit serious crimes
(b) demand too much from each other
(c) take unnecessary risks
(d) retreat into their shells

5. What does the narrator believe he understands now?
(a) the main points of the Third Insight
(b) the reason he chose to stay
(c) why Dobson was shot
(d) why the church opposes the Manuscript

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Reneau say the parents are doing to the girl by their bullying?

2. What does the narrator decide he wants to do after meeting Wil James?

3. Who found the Manuscript and translated it?

4. After meeting Father Carl at Machu Picchu, why does the narrator remain there when the priest goes home?

5. What is easier at sunrise or sunset?

(see the answer key)

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