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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As they prepare to go to separate hotels, what do Dobson and the narrator do?
(a) meet up with Charlene
(b) agree to meet later
(c) run into the police
(d) exchange addresses

2. What does Dobson tell the narrator to do?
(a) use a false name
(b) find a lawyer
(c) run toward an alley
(d) call the embassy

3. While waiting in the car at Cula, who does the narrator spot?
(a) Phil
(b) Marjorie
(c) Reneau
(d) Sarah

4. Why does the church oppose the Manuscript?
(a) because it undermines key points of their religion
(b) because it was given the Incas by Satan
(c) becasue it predates the New Testament
(d) because it is associated with black magic

5. What happens when people start to question the church?
(a) society turns from the spiritual to the scientific
(b) society becomes totally atheistic
(c) society begins to fall apart
(d) the church launches persecution

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

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

8. What will people need to overcome their restlessness?
(a) more reading of the Manuscript
(b) more time spent alone
(c) more new challenges to face
(d) more consciousness of the meaning of experiences

9. Why does the narrator not get out of the taxi at his hotel?
(a) the taxi driver knows a cheaper hotel
(b) there are soldiers standing outside
(c) another taxi is following him
(d) the hotel is on fire

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

11. How does Marjorie know that the narrator is interested in her?
(a) She can see it in his energy.
(b) Sarah tells her.
(c) She overhears him talking to a plant.
(d) She notices how he tries not to stare.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Reneau say the girl accomplishes by throwing the pie?

2. What is Sarah talking about when she says that everything on earth consists of energy and is malleable to human intention and expectation?

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

4. What is the example of the Fourth Insight that takes place at dinner?

5. What is easier at sunrise or sunset?

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