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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. Who are Father Sanchez and the narrator expecting to see near Machu Picchu?

3. What is characteristic of an aloof drama person?

4. Who do Father Sanchez and the narrator come across on the way to Machu Picchu?

5. Where does Julia suggest Marjorie go the next day?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe how Marjorie gets arrested.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay on parables. In the essay explain how parables make it easier for people to understand a deeper meaning. On a very basic level, you might want to refer to some of Aesop's fables.

Essay Topic 2

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 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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