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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 do when the narrator says he did not really speak to Rolando?

2. Why does Julia's suggestion anger Marjorie?

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

4. Where is the narrator taken?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Describe how Marjorie gets arrested.

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

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

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

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 2

Write an essay about learning by example. Specifically relate things you have learned by witnessing other people's actions as opposed to learning them from a textbook or lecture. Include how learning does not take place until it has been successfully demonstrated in some behavioral change within the learner.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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