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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sarah tell the narrator is possible to see?
(a) indications of weather coming weather change
(b) the energy around everything and everyone
(c) a plant actually growing
(d) the thoughts of other people

2. Who is Wayne Dobson whom the narrator meets on the flight to Peru?
(a) an assistant professor of history from New York University
(b) a translater of archaic languages
(c) an archeologist going to a dig in Peru
(d) an explorer who is interested in the value of the Manuscript

3. Who is the man named Chris Reneau who resembles a friend of the narrator's?
(a) a French psychology professor teaching in Brazil
(b) a French chef interested in the Manuscript
(c) a microbiologist from France
(d) a professor at the Sorbonne on vacation

4. With all the information the narrator got from Charlene, why does he go out into the garden?
(a) to check on the weather
(b) to smoke a cigar
(c) to breathe the fresh air
(d) to clear his head

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

6. What does the narrator see when he watches Sarah concentrate on a bush?
(a) her energy feeding into the bush
(b) her skin color change to green
(c) the bush beginning to grow
(d) the bush begin to tremble

7. What does Wil say the narrator is not doing?
(a) not listening to the conversation
(b) not making himself clear
(c) not thinking clearly about the Insights
(d) not actively participating in the conversation

8. What does the narrator learn about the priest Charlene met once?
(a) He left the country.
(b) He was murdered.
(c) He went into hiding.
(d) He is in prison.

9. What is special about the forest around Viciente Lodge?
(a) It is a virgin forest.
(b) It seldom gets rain.
(c) It is all imported trees.
(d) It is used for lumbering.

10. How many Insights does Charlene say the Manuscript contains?
(a) nine
(b) seven
(c) eight
(d) ten

11. What is the purpose of the Viciente Lodge?
(a) a summer camp for underprivilieged boys
(b) a place for scientific study
(c) a retreat for religious leaders
(d) an experiment in gardening

12. 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

13. What does Dobson say scientists try to do?
(a) find answers in test tubes
(b) provide scientific reasons for spiritual dogmas
(c) define humanity and the reasons for life itself
(d) treat humanity as guinea pigs

14. What does the narrator decide he wants to do after meeting Wil James?
(a) try to meet people who know other Insights
(b) get out of the country fast
(c) to go with Wilson on his search for the Ninth Insight.
(d) lay low and study the first two Insights

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Wil finally give the narrator after they leave Cula?

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

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

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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