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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 Father Sanchez advise the narrator about his visionary thoughts?

2. Who will Julian and Rolando see at the village where they are going?

3. Why does the narrator eventually see that his parents were interrogators?

4. Why were the narrator and Marjorie expected?

5. Who is the head priest at the prison?

Short Essay Questions

1. Relate what happens when gunfire erupts in the village of Cula.

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

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

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

5. Comment on the narrator's out of body experience.

6. Tell a little about the exchange between the narrator and Father Sanchez the morning after the narrator is rescued.

7. What are the rapidly developing situations after the narrator makes eye contact with a man in the restaurant?

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

9. Mention something about the warning Pablo gives the narrator before he is taken to see Cardinal Sebastian.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Coincidence in literature is usually almost, if not completely, unbelievable. Explain why that is. What makes the constant coincidences in THE CELESTINE PROPHECY acceptable to the reader? You might want to include the tale of "Androcles and the Lion" to illustrate the skepticism of improbability in such a tale.

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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