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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator's ankle feel?
(a) Painful but he can walk on it.
(b) Broken.
(c) Swollen and sore.
(d) Almost pain free.

2. 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.

3. What is the nature of Joel's attitude towards spirituality?
(a) Indifferent.
(b) Reverent.
(c) Confused.
(d) Negative.

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

5. 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 lumberjack with a huge chainsaw.
(c) A bulldozer revving up to mow down a stand of trees.
(d) A pair of gray jays squawking.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the narrator's quest?

2. What happened to Wil the last time the narrator encountered him?

3. What is about to collapse according to Joel?

4. Why does the narrator stay behind?

5. In whose dream has Maya appeared?

Short Essay Questions

1. Wwho seems to lead the narrator into the valley, where does he go and what does he do?

2. What was the main event which brought the narrator to an Appalachian valley at the beginning of the book?

3. What does Long Eagle tell the narrator about the valley?

4. What does Webber explain to the narrator about the Experiment and his involvement?

5. What does Wil and the narrator realize about where they are and what do they see Joel experiencing?

6. What does Wil say about what he is meant to learn?

7. What does the narrator tell Maya about what he believes is her purpose and how does she react?

8. What happens to the narrator as he is attempting to recall his dream vision and what does he learn about Maya?

9. What do Wil and the narrator do with Williams and what do they learn about him?

10. What kind of work does Webber do and what does he believe about that work?

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