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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do Maya and the narrator hide?
(a) Maya says Feyman is coming.
(b) Maya says there is a cougar in the woods.
(c) Maya says a Park Ranger is coming.
(d) Maya says Feyman's guards are coming.

2. What does Webber say about multinational corporations?
(a) They are responsible for an axis shift.
(b) There are some who are experimenting with cheap forms of energy.
(c) They want to take over the United States government.
(d) They are after him.

3. Why does Maya leave to go to town?
(a) To get an EMT to come look at the narrator's ankle.
(b) To get a shot of morphine for the narrator.
(c) To get some equipment to heal the narrator's ankle.
(d) To request a helicopter evacuation.

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

5. What does the narrator occasionally hear?
(a) A dissonant sound.
(b) The sound of crying.
(c) The coo of a pigeon.
(d) The screech of an owl.

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

7. What happened to Wil the last time the narrator encountered him?
(a) He left with the narrator's wife.
(b) He was arrested.
(c) He was gravely injured.
(d) He disappears.

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

9. What seems to be blocking Long Eagle from the insight he is seeking?
(a) Blindness.
(b) Bitterness.
(c) Regret.
(d) Fear.

10. 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.

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

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

13. What is the group of seven supposed to repel?
(a) Prejudice.
(b) Fear.
(c) The devil.
(d) Hate.

14. What is a corporation attempting to do?
(a) Hire the narrator to do some surveying.
(b) Buy the valley.
(c) Send the narrator back to Peru.
(d) Hire Long Eagle as a guide.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Wil and the narrator experience?

2. What does the narrator tell the person he encounters?

3. What is Long Eagle's predominant emotion as he is speaking to the narrator?

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

5. What is about to collapse according to Joel?

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