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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 do Charlene, the narrator, Maya and Webber do in the cave?

2. What type of job did the narrator have the first time he met Maya and Webber?

3. What does Wil tell the narrator their task is to be?

4. What does the author say the Fear distorted in the history of human kind?

5. What was the narrator's ultimate end in the previous life he envisioned?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Wil say about the scenarios the narrator saw?

2. What did the narrator see in his vision about the teachings of Christ?

3. In Chapter 8, what does the narrator hear as he returns to the physical plane and what does Webber tell him about the noise?

4. What do Wil and the narrator see when they experience Feyman's Life Review?

5. Into what is the narrator drawn in hell and what does he see?

6. What happens when the Group decide to try and end the Experiment by combining their energies?

7. What does the narrator urge Wil to do?

8. After Charlene and Maya escape from Feyman, what do Webber and the Narrator do?

9. What does the narrator say he realized about humans born into the world?

10. What does the narrator realize about all his previous lives and what he thinks is needed to change the trend?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

During a reconnection with his Soul Group, the narrator suddenly becomes aware that Charlene had been present during the Indian-White conflict. She had been "an Indian woman of great power, but often ignored by the envious male chiefs because of her gender."

1. Do you think it is possible the chiefs ignored Charlene because of her gender or because she was so powerful? Why or why not?

2. With research, explain how women have been ignored or relegated to secondary positions in most religions.

3. Given that women have been ignored or relegated to secondary positions in most religions as true, why do you think this has occurred?

Essay Topic 2

If a story can be likened to a jigsaw puzzle, the construction of a narrative telling that story can be likened to the careful placement of pieces of that puzzle in order to slowly, tantalizingly, and inevitably fill the reader with the desire to see the whole picture. In that sense, the telling of this particular story functions well, with details of meaning, incident, and relationship complimenting and illuminating each other with highly intriguing results.

1. What do you think the first sentence above means? Use examples from the text to support your answer.

2. In view of all the novels you have read or heard about or movies you have seen, explain why leaving readers with a "what happens next" question is universal. Use examples from this book and other books you have read to illustrate this principle and why it is used.

3. Do you believe the second sentence is true? Why or why not? Use examples from the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

There is a juxtaposition of two highly contrasting characters - the harsh, cynical Joel and the nurturing, insightful Maya (interesting that the cynic is a male and the nurturer is a female). The clear intention here, as the narrator himself realizes, is to create a vivid, embodied sense of the tension between what the narrative indicates are the main sources of energy on this plane of existence - the Fear and the desire to evolve.

1. Compare and contrast the characters of Maya and Joel. How are they different? How are they similar? Are they as contrasting as they seem? Why or why not? Use examples to show the harsh aspects of Maya and any nurturing aspects of Joel you can see.

2. Throughout the history of humanity women have always been thought of as being nurturing, because they bear children, and men as less so. Give an explanation, with examples, of how this view of women has been used to keep them in a lower status in the world than men.

3. Explain what behaviors of Joel indicate he is Fear based in his perspective and what behaviors of Maya's that might indicate she has a desire to evolve and why those behaviors seem to illustrate those two principles.

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