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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. What happens when a soldier gets near the narrator on the mountain ridge?

3. Who catches up to the narrator as he scrambles back up into the mountain ridges.

4. What do the Narrator and Marjorie see the military doing below?

5. What does Father Carl say led the narrator to his present location looking for the Manuscript?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe the coincidences that follow the narrator's choice of forks in the road.

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

5. What is the information the narrator receives about Wil from Father Carl?

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

7. How will Father Carl help the narrator?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay on personality characteristics of aggressive and passive people. Give some examples of each kind of personality. Suggest some ways that those characteristics might be modified.

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 why the Manuscript had to be completely destroyed at the end of the parable. Include the idea that for a copy to remain, the story would become simply an action adventure rather than a parable. Select a story like one of the Indiana Jones adventures to show the difference between a parable and just an exciting story.

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