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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 a person become aloof?

2. What happens with the narrator while Father Sanchez is gone?

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

4. What does Pablo warn the narrator about?

5. What does Father Sanchez give the narrator?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe how the conversation turns back at Father Carl's house.

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

5. Describe the narrator's first attempt at using the Eighth Insight.

6. How does the narrator learn to use the Sixth Insight?

7. Explain how the narrator is arrested and the coincidence of his cell mate.

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 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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