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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 does Wil say is the system that fails to deal with the Fear in contemporary life?

2. How did the narrator and Wil learn from Feyman's Birth Vision?

3. What do Wil and the narrator observe on the plane where they go in the beginning of Chapter 7?

4. What does Wil say would help troubled, trapped souls?

5. Who tries to convince Feyman to stop the Experiment?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What did the narrator see begin to emerge that changed the way humans interacted with the world?

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

5. What happens to the group from the cave in Chapter 8 as they go towards the building with the Experiment?

6. What does Wil say is their task concerning the Group of Seven?

7. What does the narrator suggest about the 1960's?

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

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

10. Describe what the four members of the Group first do when they meet at the waterfall and what they see.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The narration creates a sense of mystery, engaging the reader in the narrator's quest for truth. In this case, there are two different truths - what happened to Charlene, and what is the nature of the Tenth Insight.

1. Explain what you think the above statements mean. Use examples from the text to support your answer.

2. Using just the text from the first chapter, argue whether the search for Charlene is the most important aspect of the story or the nature of the Tenth Insight.

3. Explain what about the sense of mystery in the first chapter goaded you to continue reading the book. Use examples from the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

The appearances of Joel and Maya also function on the thematic/spiritual level of analysis, in that Joel (as an embodiment of the Fear) offers a stark view of the manifestations of the Fear's power on the physical plane, while Maya (as an embodiment of enlightenment) offers a clear portrayal of the power of more evolved energy.

1. Explain, with examples, why Joel's personality offers a stark view of the manifestations of the Fear's power on the physical plane.

2. Explain, with examples, why Maya's personality (as an embodiment of enlightenment) offers a clear portrayal of the power of more evolved energy.

3. Discuss the probability that good and evil in two different people is not so nearly clear cut in the real world.

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