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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Joel and the narrator hear as they see a pair of gray jeeps traveling through the valley?
(a) A dissonant sound.
(b) A bulldozer revving up to mow down a stand of trees.
(c) A pair of gray jays squawking.
(d) A lumberjack with a huge chainsaw.

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

3. What happened in the valley where the narrator is in past centuries?
(a) Countless gatherings of tribes to affirm peace.
(b) A massacre of the Indians.
(c) Countless vision quests and other spiritual encounters.
(d) A migration of many tribes from their original homeland.

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

5. What can the narrator not understand?
(a) The way the cloud keeps changing colors.
(b) The images of the dreaming person's dream.
(c) The words the dreamer is saying.
(d) The words the angels are singing.

6. What does Joel think abounds in the world?
(a) Violence.
(b) Self sacrifice.
(c) Love.
(d) Social/legal/political corruption and self interest.

7. Where does the narrator wash the next morning?
(a) A mineral hot springs.
(b) A nearby stream.
(c) In a clear, pristine lake.
(d) Under a waterfall.

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

9. Who is Maya Ponder?
(a) A tall, black woman who claims to be a physician.
(b) A member of the relocation committee.
(c) An angel.
(d) Charlene's friend.

10. What may keep some people from understanding the insight for which Wil and the narrator are searching?
(a) Lack of desire.
(b) Timidity.
(c) Haste.
(d) Fear.

11. What do Wil and the narrator experience?
(a) Pouring rain.
(b) Dense fog.
(c) Sudden streaks of rainbows.
(d) Sudden streaks of shadow.

12. In what direction does the narrator walk after his encounter with Maya?
(a) In the direction of the cave.
(b) Towards the waterfall.
(c) In the direction of the hum.
(d) Towards the park entrance.

13. What does Maya discuss with the narrator?
(a) Different ways of perceiving pain.
(b) The way to Shambala.
(c) The way through the last gateway.
(d) Charlene's reasons for leaving Peru.

14. Where are Wil and the narrator?
(a) In a place of nightmares.
(b) On holy ground.
(c) In a place of dreams.
(d) In purgatory.

15. What does the narrator suggest to Maya about who she is?
(a) She is Charlene's spiritual guide.
(b) She is the reincarnation of his sister.
(c) She is one of the group of seven.
(d) She is a reincarnated Native American.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does Webber say he worked who the narrator knows?

2. What is the dream about?

3. What does the narrator figure the sketch is?

4. Why do Maya and the narrator hide?

5. What does the narrator say motivates the corporations?

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