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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 Karla tell Marjorie not to do?

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

3. What does the narrator run into on the road?

4. What is an intimidator?

5. What does Pablo warn the narrator about?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How will Father Carl help the narrator?

3. What is revealed in the narrator's description of his parents?

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

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

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

7. How do the narrator and Marjorie escape the soldiers on the way to see Sebastian?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay about the kindest and most thoughtful person you know or have read about. What makes that person so outstanding? Discuss how such a person affects all those he or she comes in contact with. Also discuss whether you think it is possible for a person to consciously create that kind of persona or is it just something some people are born with?

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

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.

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