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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 give the narrator?

2. When the narrator takes another route off the mountain, who does he run into?

3. What does Julia see in the relationship between the narrator and Marjorie?

4. Who will Julian and Rolando see at the village where they are going?

5. How do the narrator and Marjorie escape the police?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the concept of the control drama introduced?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay about fear. In the essay mention how fear is immobilizing and give examples on the order of the deer staring into the headlights of an approaching car. Also include ways of overcoming fear in order to act on a perceived danger.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay about spirituality in a much broader sense than just from the standpoint of an organized religion. In the essay discuss how a person who has never heard any religious dogma can be spiritual. Describe what a spiritual person does and says in the company of other people.

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