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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What place do the narrator and Father Sanchez head for when they learn that soldiers are in the village?
(a) Machu Pichu
(b) Paraguay
(c) Uraguay
(d) Argentina

2. Why is the young man, Pablo, in prison with the narrator?
(a) He was selling copies of the Manuscript.
(b) He was aking questions about the Manuscript.
(c) He had been teaching children about the Manuscript.
(d) He had three copies of the Manuscript in his saddle bags.

3. Who does the narrator meet again while stopped for the roadblock?
(a) Cardinal Sebastian
(b) Phil Stone
(c) Sarah Lorner
(d) Julia and Rolando

4. When being aloof ceases to work, why does one become a poor me?
(a) to make intimidators ashamed
(b) to explain away misfortune
(c) to change the subject
(d) to appeal to sympathy

5. In a feeling of euphoria, what happens to the narrator?
(a) He jumps up and shouts.
(b) He has an out of body experience.
(c) He falls asleep on the ridge.
(d) He finds the Ninth Insight.

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

7. What does Karla tell Marjorie not to do?
(a) ask about the child's father
(b) put her hands on her child
(c) say anything that would frighten the child
(d) speak about a child as though the child were not there

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

9. What advice is the narrator given about finding his way?
(a) to navigate by the stars and travel only at night
(b) to carry a roadmap Father Carl gives him
(c) to ask help from Peruvian natives
(d) to use his intuition

10. Why does Father Sanchez stay at Father Carl's house and send the narrator on to Machu Picchu?
(a) He has a serious back problem.
(b) He wants to listen to the radio.
(c) He wants to meditate.
(d) He expects Father Carl will come up from the village.

11. Who catches up to the narrator as he scrambles back up into the mountain ridges.
(a) Wil
(b) Reneau
(c) Phil Strong
(d) one of Jensen's men

12. Where do the narrator and Marjorie find refuge?
(a) in a church with a sympathetic priest
(b) in a library hiding in the shelves
(c) in an empty community building that was left unlocked
(d) in a house belonging to a woman named Karla

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

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

15. What does Father Sanchez begin to explain to the narrator?
(a) where to find Wil
(b) the Seventh Insight
(c) what happened with Cardinal Sebastian
(d) how to escape to Paraguay

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Julia and the narrator decide to go the next day?

2. Why does a person become aloof?

3. Why does Julia's suggestion anger Marjorie?

4. How do Father Sanchez and Father Carl explain their calmness during this time of danger?

5. How does Father Sanchez categorize the narrator's behavior?

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