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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. How long will it take Li-Tze to get to his destination?

2. What did Vorbis do to the porpoises?

3. What does Fri'it think Drunah is?

4. How does the tortoise speak to Brutha?

5. What does Brutha excel in?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the cloaked revolutionaries talk of doing?

2. What is the relationship between eagles and tortoises, according to the author?

3. Describe the first meeting between Om, Didactylos and Urn.

4. What happens to gods according to Koomi?

5. Who is Om?

6. How does Brutha feel about traveling by boat?

7. Describe what the philosophers are like.

8. What do the monks in the Ramtop mountains do?

9. Describe Didactylos and why Brutha was referred to him.

10. Why does Brutha go to talk with Lu-Tze, and what does the man do to reassure him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the concept of big gods and lesser gods. Describe how a great god becomes a lesser god, and how a god ceases to exist.

Essay Topic 2

Describe the meeting between Om and the sea goddess. What is she like? How is he like her and how is he different? What does she plan to do, and what actually happens?

Essay Topic 3

Om does a lot of thinking about gods and his own status and relationships as they walk in the desert. What does he realize? How is his relationship with Brutha different now, and how does he plan to respond to the changes?

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