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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the historian say should be more important than studying actions in the past?

2. What does the Manuscript predict?

3. What does Sarah tell the narrator is possible to see?

4. What does the narrator promise Charlene?

5. Trying to participate more, what does the narrator tell Reneau?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why is Charlene so interested in giving this Manuscript information to the narrator?

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

5. What is bothering Wil as he and the narrator drive away from Viciente Lodge?

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

7. Describe Wil's caution to the narrator.

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

9. What does Dobson have to say about history?

10. Explain the coincidence on the plane.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay on radicalism. Using Cardinal Sebastian as an example, show how even a religious person may sometime become so radical that he or she will stop at nothing to perpetuate a rigid idea.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay about fear. In the essay mention how fear is immobilizing and give examples on the order of the deer staring into the headlights of an approaching car. Also include ways of overcoming fear in order to act on a perceived danger.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay on personality characteristics of aggressive and passive people. Give some examples of each kind of personality. Suggest some ways that those characteristics might be modified.

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