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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Webber and the narrator smell suddenly?
(a) Bananas.
(b) Toxic gas.
(c) A wet dog.
(d) Tobacco smoke.

2. What is the narrator's quest?
(a) For the tenth insight.
(b) For the sixth sense.
(c) For the twelth insight.
(d) For the Holy Grail.

3. Who had Williams intended to meet in his most recent life?
(a) The incarnation of the man he refuses to forgive.
(b) The Native American woman he wrongs.
(c) No one since he isn't ready yet for that encounter.
(d) The incarnation of the large white man.

4. Why does the narrator stay behind?
(a) To stop the bulldozer.
(b) To help the lumberjack who has cut himself.
(c) To look for Charlene.
(d) To look for some of the grey wolves.

5. Who is the next dreaming soul?
(a) Wil.
(b) Charlene.
(c) Maya.
(d) Joel.

6. Who is Wil?
(a) A ghost of someone who dies in the valley a century earlier.
(b) One of the rangers.
(c) A man who is with Charlene.
(d) The narrator's friend.

7. About what does Wil say he is meant to learn?
(a) The nature of love.
(b) The nature of existence.
(c) The way around time.
(d) The way through the void.

8. What does the narrator say motivates the corporations?
(a) Fear.
(b) Alturism.
(c) Greed.
(d) Concern for the earth.

9. What does the narrator remember from the previous night?
(a) Taking a couple aspirin and then falling asleep.
(b) A strange man visiting his camp.
(c) Some kind of drugged smoke coming from his camp fire.
(d) A dream.

10. How does Webber feel about some of his previous work?
(a) Guilty.
(b) Indifferent.
(c) Happy.
(d) Proud.

11. How can the narrator alter his experience of pain?
(a) By continuing to walk on his ankle to keep up the blood flow.
(b) By altering both his thought processes and his energy.
(c) By humming a mantra.
(d) By taking aspirin.

12. Who is the dreaming person?
(a) Maya.
(b) Joel.
(c) Charlene.
(d) The narrator.

13. What does Wil say are the images of the dreamer?
(a) Of a war the dreamer could and should have prevented.
(b) Of a new race of beings.
(c) Of a time when dinosaurs roamed the earth.
(d) Of a time in the distant future.

14. Why does Lipscomb leave?
(a) He is afraid of the men in the jeeps.
(b) His desire to do so becomes more urgent.
(c) He has an appointment.
(d) He is afraid of the lumberjack.

15. What does the narrator believe about Maya?
(a) She is an avatar.
(b) Maya is the reincarnation of the woman who tried to make peace between the whites and natives in Williams' dream.
(c) She lives in several dimensions at the same time.
(d) She is a reincarnation of St. Theresa.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Williams deliberately ignore the pleas of a white woman and large white man to negotiate for peace in a past life?

2. What does the narrator rationalize about his ankle?

3. What do Joel and the narrator hear as they see a pair of gray jeeps traveling through the valley?

4. What does Maya do after the narrator tells her what he thinks about her?

5. What happens to Williams and the other souls?

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