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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 an intimidator?

2. Who is the man with the intimidator control drama that Julia and the narrator meet on their trip to Iquitos?

3. How does Father Sanchez categorize the narrator's behavior?

4. Where do Julia and the narrator decide to go the next day?

5. What will enable the narrator and Marjorie to make a good relationship?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are the thoughts going through the narrator's mind at Father Carl's cabin?

3. Describe the priest's instruction to experience the Fifth Insight.

4. Describe how Marjorie gets arrested.

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

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

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

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

9. Explain how the Eighth Insight helps Julia understand what is going on between the narrator and Marjorie.

10. Asking about his dream, how does the narrator get information about the Seventh Insight?

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 about sudden discovery, that light bulb moment when something is suddenly made clear. Write this essay from a general perspective rather than a spiritual one. Use examples like the moment you began to understand chemistry or algebra.

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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