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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 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

2. What is Sarah talking about when she says that everything on earth consists of energy and is malleable to human intention and expectation?
(a) global warming
(b) the theory of relativity
(c) theThird Insight
(d) her work in physics

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

4. With all the information the narrator got from Charlene, why does he go out into the garden?
(a) to check on the weather
(b) to smoke a cigar
(c) to breathe the fresh air
(d) to clear his head

5. What does the narrator think about that makes him agree with Charlene?
(a) his last two relationships
(b) his recent distrust of people
(c) his problems with the bank
(d) his problems at work

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What coincidence happens when the narrator gets up to go to the restroom?

3. What does the narrator see when he watches Sarah concentrate on a bush?

4. What is the purpose of the Viciente Lodge?

5. What will the restlessness cause people to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator get hooked up with Wilson James after Dobson is shot?

2. Describe the example of the Fourth Insight at work when Wil, Reneau, and the narrator have dinner together.

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

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

5. What does Dobson have to say about history?

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

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

8. Describe the theme of THE CELESTINE PROPHECY.

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

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

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