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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the man following the Narrator up into the mountain?
(a) He turns around and goes back down.
(b) He has a heart attack
(c) He is shot.
(d) He falls off the ridge.

2. Who are Father Sanchez and the narrator expecting to see near Machu Picchu?
(a) Wil
(b) Father Carl
(c) Julia and Rolando
(d) Phil

3. At a fork in the road, which one does the narrator take?
(a) the one with the most trees beside it
(b) the one that leads down
(c) the one that runs along a stream
(d) the one which seems brighter to him

4. Why does a person become aloof?
(a) so that they will feel superior
(b) because they are basically loners
(c) because they lack conversational ability
(d) so as not to reveal anything someone can criticize

5. What does the Seventh Insight deal with?
(a) making amends
(b) using intuition
(c) changing careers
(d) gaining wealth

6. Who is the man with the intimidator control drama that Julia and the narrator meet on their trip to Iquitos?
(a) a fundamentalist priest
(b) a teacher
(c) a policeman
(d) a gas station attendant

7. What does Father Carl say led the narrator to his present location looking for the Manuscript?
(a) everything that had ever happened in his life
(b) a sense of disbelief
(c) his aloof drama
(d) an insatiable curiosity

8. Who does the narrator talk to without falling back into his control drama?
(a) a man from the embassy
(b) one of the prison guards
(c) Phil Stone on the way to Iquitos
(d) a young Peruvian in his prison cell

9. What happens to Marjorie while she waits beside the road?
(a) She is hit by a truck.
(b) She is shot.
(c) She faints.
(d) She is arrested.

10. Who comes to the dining room to warn them of troops coming that way?
(a) Phil Stone
(b) Rolando
(c) Karla
(d) Father Sanchez

11. How does Father Sanchez label the narrator's control drama?
(a) as an interrogator
(b) as aloof
(c) as a poor me
(d) as an intimidator

12. How is the narrator traveling?
(a) by hitchhiking
(b) on foot
(c) in a borrowed truck
(d) by donkey

13. How do Father Sanchez and Father Carl explain their calmness during this time of danger?
(a) by being connected to the energy
(b) by meditation and study of the Manuscript
(c) by being sure that they are safe there
(d) by prayer

14. Back down the mountain, what brings the narrator out of his euphoria?
(a) a large snake in the road
(b) more gunshots
(c) a blood chilling scream
(d) the sound of approaching vehicles

15. What does Julia see in the relationship between the narrator and Marjorie?
(a) a happy future at a later time
(b) dependence based on gratitude and not love
(c) doubt and uncertainty
(d) eventual power struggles

Short Answer Questions

1. After a dream the narrator has in prison, what does Pablo do?

2. What place do the narrator and Father Sanchez head for when they learn that soldiers are in the village?

3. How do the narrator and Marjorie escape the police?

4. Who do the narrator and Marjorie find at the house of Juan Hinton?

5. What does Father Sanchez advise the narrator about his visionary thoughts?

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