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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sarah give to the narrator?
(a) an invitation to a panel discussion
(b) a copy of the Third Insight to read for himself
(c) directions to the place where the Manuscript was found
(d) a raincoat for pretection in the forest

2. Trying to participate more, what does the narrator tell Reneau?
(a) about Phil Stong's ideas
(b) the girl Marjorie
(c) about seeing energy fields
(d) about Viciente Lodge

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

4. What information does Reneau share with the narrator?
(a) that he has a copy of the Fourth Insight
(b) that he is not planning to return to Brazil
(c) that he is actually from Canada
(d) that he is looking for the Manuscript

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

6. When does a person learn the Insights?
(a) when he/she stops resisting the information
(b) when he/she has the right teacher
(c) when he/she finds the Manuscript
(d) when he/she is ready

7. What causes the narrator to lose his ability to see the energy fields?
(a) gunshots in the distance
(b) his doubt about seeing energy
(c) angry voices
(d) a sudden rainfall

8. Why is the narrator unable to relax on the plane to Peru?
(a) because he sees the man who was spying on Charlene
(b) because he had to rush too much to make the flight
(c) because the trubulence keeps tossing the plane
(d) because he keeps questioning why he is doing it

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

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

11. What happened while Charlene was in the ladies' room?
(a) Her briefcase was stolen.
(b) Someone stole her car.
(c) The restaurant caught fire.
(d) Her table was taken.

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

13. What is Sarah talking about when she says that everything on earth consists of energy and is malleable to human intention and expectation?
(a) the theory of relativity
(b) her work in physics
(c) global warming
(d) theThird Insight

14. What does Wilson James say he wants to find?
(a) the person who stole the Manuscript
(b) a safe way out of Lima
(c) the Ninth Insight
(d) the site where the Manuscript was found

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the man named Chris Reneau who resembles a friend of the narrator's?

2. Why does Reneau decide to go to Viciente Lodge?

3. What rumors are going around about Viciente?

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

5. Why does Wil say people meet in some kind of coincidence?

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