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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. Who does the narrator see at breakfast in the prison?
2. Why does Julia's suggestion anger Marjorie?
3. What will enable the narrator and Marjorie to make a good relationship?
4. In what section does the Manuscript deal with control drama in response to a situation?
5. Who will Julian and Rolando see at the village where they are going?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is revealed in the narrator's description of his parents?
2. Comment on the narrator's out of body experience.
3. Tell a little about the exchange between the narrator and Father Sanchez the morning after the narrator is rescued.
4. Why does Julia advise against Marjorie's going on to Iquitos?
5. How does the narrator learn to use the Sixth Insight?
6. What is the information the narrator receives about Wil from Father Carl?
7. How will Father Carl help the narrator?
8. How does Father Sanchez begin explaining the Seventh Insight to the narrator?
9. Asking about his dream, how does the narrator get information about the Seventh Insight?
10. What is the narrator's behavior that Father Sanchez points out is a control drama?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay about learning by example. Specifically relate things you have learned by witnessing other people's actions as opposed to learning them from a textbook or lecture. Include how learning does not take place until it has been successfully demonstrated in some behavioral change within the learner.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Write an essay about how our systems of money in the world cause most of the problems in the world. What is it about money that often brings out the worst in people? In the essay discuss greed not only on an individual level, but on a corporate and national level as well.
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