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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. Why does the narrator not get out of the taxi at his hotel?

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

3. What will the restlessness cause people to do?

4. What rumors are going around about Viciente?

5. What happens as the narrator enters the hotel and sees Dobson?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Describe the breakthrough the narrator has while Sarah is confronting the German scientists.

10. Describe the theme of THE CELESTINE PROPHECY.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay about searching for deeper meanings. In your essay discuss how such a search is never ending. Explain why, even in a religious sense, it is not possible for a person to ever learn everything there is to know.

Essay Topic 2

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 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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