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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 is the first coincidence on the way to Cula?

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

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

4. What do the energized plants offer humans?

5. When Sarah arrives, what does she tell the narrator to do?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happens when the narrator is told to observe some students sitting in front of some plants?

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

5. Describe Wil's caution to the narrator.

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

7. Why did Dobson write to the Peruvian government?

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

9. Why is the document called the Manuscript in the novel, an artifact of great interest?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay on the subject "Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows." The thrust of the essay includes how the church and Certain scientists are united in opposing the Manuscript. Normally, there is more of a conflict between the church and science. Explain why they are united against the Manuscript.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay about argument. In the essay you are not talking about enlightened exchange of ideas. Rather, you will focus on those arguments for which there can be no clear winner such as Sarah's argument with the German and Father Sanchez' disagreement with the Cardinal. Discuss the negative effects of such arguments.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay on the value of friends. Use examples from the novel that describe what we call social networking today. In the essay differentiate between face to face networking and the anonymous networking on internet sites.

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