2. What does the Manuscript predict?
(a) the end of the world in 1999
(b) a change in human society in the late twentieth century
(c) a major world war by 2020
(d) the arrival of space aliens

3. What happens while the narrator is running away?
(a) A man stops him and takes him to a safe house.
(b) He loses one of his shoes.
(c) He runs behind a bus and disappears.
(d) He feels the wind of pullets past his ears.

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

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

6. How has the Third Insight been used experimentally at Viciente Lodge?
(a) to keep the wrong people out
(b) to produce electricity from plant energy
(c) to affect the way plants grow
(d) to measure energy fields

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

8. What does Reneau say the girl accomplishes by throwing the pie?
(a) trying to get the narrator's attention
(b) putting on a comedy show
(c) showing she is ready to leave home
(d) getting back some of her energy

9. What is the Peruvian government's attitude toward the Manuscript?
(a) that it must be preserved
(b) that it belongs to the Peruvian people
(c) that it is a radical hoax
(d) that it does not exist

10. Who is at the place where the narrator is supposed to meet Sarah the next morning?
(a) his friend, Wil James
(b) a disapproving German
(c) a man named Phil Stone
(d) the young woman, Margorie

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

12. Why does Phil teach the narrator to stare at his own fingers?
(a) in order to see his own energy
(b) in order to clear his mind
(c) in order to improve his focus
(d) in order to exercise his concentration

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

14. What are the people in the novel either searching for or trying to suppress?
(a) an ancient Incan stela with magic powers
(b) an archeologist who found the Manuscript
(c) a document they call the Manuscript
(d) tablets of stone older than the Ten Commandments

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