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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dan feel at the end of chapter 12?
(a) Anger.
(b) Peace.
(c) Depression.
(d) Nothing.

2. What does the tiger do?
(a) Mauls Dan's face.
(b) Lies down beside Dan .
(c) Licks Dan's face.
(d) Pulls Dan out of the grave.

3. What task does Mama Chia give Dan?
(a) To live yesterday for tomorrow.
(b) To re-dig his grave but make it an altar instead.
(c) To strive for understanding.
(d) To leap 30 feet across a dizzying chasm to a ledge and doorway on the other side.

4. Why should Dan meditate by the waterfall?
(a) To really hear the waterfall.
(b) No particular reason.
(c) If he needs to prove something to himself.
(d) So the sound blocks out his thoughts.

5. The third level is about what?
(a) Power to give life as well as to take it.
(b) Power over impulses and desires of the ego.
(c) Power to create.
(d) The need for power.

6. What does each floor represent?
(a) An expanded state of awareness.
(b) Nothing.
(c) A path to god.
(d) A way to meditate.

7. What does Mama Chia draw?
(a) The Seven Towers of Babel.
(b) The Tower of Seven Floors.
(c) The Seven Towers of Saren.
(d) The Tower of Seven Powers.

8. What is Sachi doing?
(a) Clinging to the far ledge and calling for help as the tiger paces nearby.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Paddling away on a surfboard.
(d) Waiting on the other side to take care of Dan's cuts.

9. What sometimes happens when angelic souls overshadow primitive animals to experience life through them?
(a) They elevate the souls of the animals.
(b) They move forward in evolution.
(c) They cannot separate.
(d) They die.

10. Why is Dan afraid?
(a) He has lost his good physical conditioning.
(b) He has no gun.
(c) Because of the leprosy.
(d) That Beer Belly may return.

11. What does Dan think is one reason Socrates sends him to Mama Chia?
(a) To help her.
(b) To see if she is still alive.
(c) He is not sure.
(d) To guide her.

12. What does Mama Chia have Dan dig?
(a) Nothing.
(b) A trench.
(c) A well.
(d) A grave.

13. When Dan stops being an observer to become part of the community, what happens?
(a) He understands Mama Chia's purpose.
(b) He realizes how shallow he is.
(c) He is ready to leave.
(d) He stops worrying about catching leprosy.

14. To where does Mama Chia lead Dan?
(a) To a cave.
(b) To the ocean.
(c) To a real tower.
(d) To a ridge.

15. What does the Tower represent?
(a) The way to ascendancy.
(b) The Evil inside each of us.
(c) The inability of humans to become one.
(d) The chakras.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Dan assigned to work?

2. Of what does the storekeeper warn Dan?

3. To what do some peaceful warrior souls agree?

4. Who are aware at birth?

5. What self is represented by the heart?

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