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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dan have to keep fighting off?
(a) Despondency.
(b) Panic.
(c) Rage.
(d) Lassitude.

2. What does she do after drawing the figure?
(a) Dances.
(b) Goes into a trance.
(c) Sings.
(d) Prays.

3. What is the law of faith?
(a) Doing one thing but knowing another.
(b) The courage to live as though everything happens for one's highest good and learning.
(c) The ability to do without doing.
(d) Knowing one thing but doing another.

4. What is the best definition for the Hawaiian word "kahuna?"
(a) The one who is to blame.
(b) The head honcho.
(c) Magician or expert in any situation.
(d) The one who is to sustain.

5. What returns to Dan as he is healing?
(a) A new sense of direction.
(b) Peace.
(c) A sense of anger at his stupidity.
(d) A renewed sense of urgency.

6. What becomes an obsession to Dan?
(a) Finding a direction.
(b) Revenge.
(c) Thirst.
(d) Rescue.

7. What does Mama Chia say about the energies?
(a) They are imaginary but useful.
(b) They are not imaginary.
(c) They only help the spirit.
(d) They only help the physical body.

8. What does Mama Chia see as hidden gifts?
(a) The way human beings do not believe in their deaths.
(b) Death and rebirth.
(c) The unconscious.
(d) Painful physical challenges she suffers as a child.

9. What has bothered Dan since the surfboard incident?
(a) The idea of faith.
(b) The idea of death.
(c) Mama Chia's lackadaisical mannerisms.
(d) The ocean.

10. Of what does Fuji have to let go?
(a) His wife.
(b) Everything he lost in a fire.
(c) His daughter.
(d) His dead son.

11. What cure does Ruth prescribe for Dan?
(a) A barefoot walk in the surf.
(b) A tanning booth.
(c) A sauna.
(d) A barefoot walk on coals.

12. Everyone the author looks, what does he see?
(a) Others searching for something, too.
(b) Prosperity.
(c) Beggars.
(d) Joy and optimism.

13. What is the board like that Dan finds?
(a) A dented, fiberglass board that is slightly too short for his frame.
(b) He cannot find a board.
(c) Like the ones the old Hawaiians used.
(d) A new slick, fiberglass board.

14. At some point, what would Dan have traded for some water?
(a) All his money.
(b) His life.
(c) Enlightenment.
(d) His wife and daughter.

15. What fades in the author's memories as he leads a "normal" life?
(a) His memories of fighting in Viet Nam.
(b) His encounter with Socrates.
(c) His past life as a Tibetan monk.
(d) His father's death.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Dan respond when he realizes his predicament?

2. What are the Basic Self, Conscious Self and Higher Self?

3. What lesson from Socrates does the author have difficulty following in this early part of the book?

4. After Stanford, where does the author accept a teaching position?

5. Why does Millman become more dejected as time passes on his travels?

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