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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 has the narrator's aloofness kept him from doing?
(a) learning what Rolando knows
(b) saying too much to an enemy
(c) speaking with Rolando
(d) making a new friend

2. What does Pablo warn the narrator about?
(a) not to give his real name to anyone
(b) not to talk to the priests
(c) not to become too addicted to another person
(d) not to mention the Manuscript in the prison

3. What does Father Sanchez begin to explain to the narrator?
(a) the Seventh Insight
(b) what happened with Cardinal Sebastian
(c) where to find Wil
(d) how to escape to Paraguay

4. What does Julia see that causes her to try and separate the narrator and Marjorie?
(a) Marjorie is too frightened to go with the narrator.
(b) Marjorie is too weak to go to the jungle.
(c) Marjorie has a very low energy level.
(d) They are stealing energy from each other.

5. Seeing Wil drive off before the military can arrest him, where do the narrator and Marjorie go?
(a) to climb a tree in the forest
(b) the rocky ridges in the foothills
(c) to hide behind a bank
(d) to a small hotel

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Father Sanchez categorize the narrator's behavior?

2. Why does a person become aloof?

3. What place do the narrator and Father Sanchez head for when they learn that soldiers are in the village?

4. When the narrator takes another route off the mountain, who does he run into?

5. What advice is the narrator given about finding his way?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Father Sanchez begin explaining the Seventh Insight to the narrator?

2. What is the narrator's behavior that Father Sanchez points out is a control drama?

3. How is the concept of the control drama introduced?

4. Why does Julia advise against Marjorie's going on to Iquitos?

5. What takes place after spending the night at Juan Hinton's house?

6. How does the narrator learn to use the Sixth Insight?

7. Describe the coincidences that follow the narrator's choice of forks in the road.

8. What are the thoughts going through the narrator's mind at Father Carl's cabin?

9. What is revealed in the narrator's description of his parents?

10. Explain how the Eighth Insight helps Julia understand what is going on between the narrator and Marjorie.

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