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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 when people start to question the church?
(a) the church launches persecution
(b) society begins to fall apart
(c) society turns from the spiritual to the scientific
(d) society becomes totally atheistic

2. What is the preoccupation Dobson says is keeping humans from understanding the First Insight?
(a) the preoccupation with religion
(b) the preoccupation of making a living
(c) the preoccupation with entertainment
(d) the preoccupation with security

3. Why does Wil say people meet in some kind of coincidence?
(a) because both people look familian to the other
(b) because both parties have information to share
(c) because they are both lost
(d) because the time is miraculously preordained

4. What does the narrator believe he understands now?
(a) why Dobson was shot
(b) the reason he chose to stay
(c) the main points of the Third Insight
(d) why the church opposes the Manuscript

5. What does Wil finally give the narrator after they leave Cula?
(a) a survival kit for the mountains
(b) a copy of the Fourth Insight
(c) a serious lecture about stealing energy
(d) a pistol for self-protection

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator promise Charlene?

2. What does Reneau say the girl accomplishes by throwing the pie?

3. Why is the narrator unable to relax on the plane to Peru?

4. Who is Wayne Dobson whom the narrator meets on the flight to Peru?

5. What is Sarah talking about when she says that everything on earth consists of energy and is malleable to human intention and expectation?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the coincidence on the plane.

2. How does Redfield initiate the intrigue that runs through the novel?

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

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

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

6. Describe the initial meeting of the narrator and Marjorie.

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

8. Explain the effect Jensen has on the narrator and how Wil gets him away.

9. What is the first coincidence that occurs with the narrator on the way to Cula?

10. What contribution does the next person add to the narrator's understanding of the Third Insight?

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