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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 is an intimidator?

2. Where is the narrator taken after meeting the man on the road?

3. What does the Seventh Insight deal with?

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

5. Where do the narrator and Marjorie find refuge?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay on your idea of a Utopian world. Detail what it would be like and how it would affect the people living there. Conclude the essay with an evaluation on whether or not you believe achieving Utopia is possible among humans.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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