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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has always fascinated the narrator?
(a) the concept of coincidences
(b) metaphysical literature
(c) archeology
(d) the Incan Empire

2. What happens as the narrator enters the hotel and sees Dobson?
(a) Gunfire breaks out.
(b) Dobson invites him for a drink.
(c) Dobson is talking to a priest.
(d) The police are arresting dobson.

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

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

5. Why is Dobson returning to Peru?
(a) To challenge the government.
(b) To find more Insights.
(c) To prove the Manuscript is wrong.
(d) To look for the priest.

6. How does Dobson say the Middle Ages were defined?
(a) by ignorance and disease
(b) by the Christian Church
(c) by the art and drama of the period
(d) by theprinting press

7. What happened to the priest Charlene went to see about the Manuscript?
(a) He disappeared.
(b) He was dead when she got there.
(c) He refused to speak ot her.
(d) He was arrested.

8. What has preceded Dobson on this trip to Peru?
(a) an act of Congress
(b) an appeal from the president
(c) the cooperation of the embassy
(d) a letter to the Peruvian government

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

10. What is Charlene doing when the narrator arrives at the restaurant?
(a) looking at her watch
(b) talking on the phone
(c) talking with two policemen
(d) reading copies of the Manuscript

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

12. How does the conversation start between Charlene and the narrator?
(a) discussing the stolen briefcase
(b) deciding where to meet than night
(c) catching up since they last met
(d) suggesting items on the menu

13. Why does Wil say people meet in some kind of coincidence?
(a) because they are both lost
(b) because the time is miraculously preordained
(c) because both people look familian to the other
(d) because both parties have information to share

14. When they meet a German scientist, what does he do?
(a) turns around and walks away
(b) asks Sarah to teach him
(c) shares his notes with Sarah
(d) attacks Sarah about their research

15. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. Trying to participate more, what does the narrator tell Reneau?

2. What is special about the forest around Viciente Lodge?

3. What has Wayne Dobson found when he went to see a priest that never showed up?

4. What is the Peruvian government's attitude toward the Manuscript?

5. Who is the man who rescues the Narrator?

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