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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 does the narrator discover when he wakes the morning after camping with Wil and Reneau?
(a) There is a llama in their camp.
(b) Wil and Reneau are already up.
(c) It is raining hard.
(d) Wil and Reneau have already left.

2. What does the historian say should be more important than studying actions in the past?
(a) studying thoughts and feelings
(b) studying educational trends
(c) studying beliefs and superstitions
(d) studying roads and houses

3. What does Wil say the narrator is not doing?
(a) not actively participating in the conversation
(b) not thinking clearly about the Insights
(c) not making himself clear
(d) not listening to the conversation

4. What happens when researchers use their own energy to add to the energy around the plants, and show concern for the plants?
(a) They get plants to emit sounds.
(b) They create an electric generator.
(c) They affect the way plants grow.
(d) They get very tired.

5. What rumors are going around about Viciente?
(a) that it may be nationalized
(b) that it is being watched to see who comes and goes
(c) that it will be sold and torn down
(d) that the government wants to shut it down

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Wil say people meet in some kind of coincidence?

2. What does the narrator see during an argument between Sarah and the German?

3. What does Sarah give to the narrator?

4. Why does the narrator call the police?

5. Why is the Manuscript in danger of disappearing?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Detail how Sarah handles German scientists looking for the research gardens at Viciente Lodge.

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

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

5. Why did Dobson write to the Peruvian government?

6. How does Redfield introduce the idea of the Insights?

7. Who is Sarah and how does she begin telling the narrator about the third Insight?

8. Describe Wil's caution to the narrator.

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

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

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