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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 happens when a soldier gets near the narrator on the mountain ridge?

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

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

4. How does Father Sanchez categorize the narrator's behavior?

5. What does Father Sanchez do when the narrator says he did not really speak to Rolando?

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. How is the concept of the control drama introduced?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Write an essay on personality characteristics of aggressive and passive people. Give some examples of each kind of personality. Suggest some ways that those characteristics might be modified.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay about how our systems of money in the world cause most of the problems in the world. What is it about money that often brings out the worst in people? In the essay discuss greed not only on an individual level, but on a corporate and national level as well.

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