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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator observe in the garden?
(a) many different kinds of birds
(b) energy fields around the plants
(c) a small cemetery
(d) a priest meditating

2. 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.

3. Where does Julia suggest Marjorie go the next day?
(a) to Lima to catch a plane
(b) to Father Carl's house to wait for the narrator
(c) to Machu Picchu to hide out
(d) to Guatemala with Rolando

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

5. Where is the narrator taken after meeting the man on the road?
(a) a mission
(b) a cave
(c) to jail
(d) a safe house

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

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

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

9. What happens when the police search the narrator's vehicle?
(a) They order him to turn around and go back.
(b) They recognize Father Carl's truck and let him pass.
(c) They find his copy of the Manuscript.
(d) They let him pass because he is American.

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

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

12. What happens with the narrator while Father Sanchez is gone?
(a) He finds a copy of the Ninth Insight at Machu Picchu.
(b) He runs out of food and gets very hungry.
(c) He cannot remember what he learned so far.
(d) He has thoughts of Wil, Marjorie, and Cardinal Sebastian.

13. When the narrator takes another route off the mountain, who does he run into?
(a) a Frenchman
(b) a priest
(c) a farmer
(d) a monkey

14. What will enable the narrator and Marjorie to make a good relationship?
(a) finding the Ninth Insight
(b) a lot of space and time
(c) advance study to learn how to avoid addiction
(d) developing a mutual addiction

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At a fork in the road, which one does the narrator take?

2. Where is the narrator taken?

3. Who does the narrator meet again while stopped for the roadblock?

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

5. What does Father Sanchez give the narrator?

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