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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What will the restlessness cause people to do?
(a) demand too much from each other
(b) take unnecessary risks
(c) retreat into their shells
(d) commit serious crimes

3. Where is Viciente Lodge located?
(a) in the Andes
(b) just outside of Lima
(c) in the Peruvian plains
(d) near the ocean

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened while Charlene was in the ladies' room?

2. Who is the man named Chris Reneau who resembles a friend of the narrator's?

3. What is the example of the Fourth Insight that takes place at dinner?

4. What does Sarah give to the narrator?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. As Wil and the narrator head out, what advice does he offer the narrator?

2. Describe the coincidence that occurs when the narrator forms a plan of action.

3. Why is the document called the Manuscript in the novel, an artifact of great interest?

4. Why can the narrator not sleep on the plane?

5. Explain the purpose of the drive into the Andes the morning after the narrator is rescued by Wilson.

6. Describe the breakthrough the narrator has while Sarah is confronting the German scientists.

7. Why does Dobson say he is returning to Peru?

8. Explain why Wil does not tell the narrator everything at once.

9. What does the narrator do when he becomes aware of being followed?

10. Why do the narrator and Dobson exchange hotel addresses at the airport?

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