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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, A Matter of Energy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Outside with the narrator, what does Charlene become aware of?
(a) a man watching them from the parking lot
(b) her empty briefcase under a bush
(c) a sudden change in the weather
(d) a rash on the narrator's hand

2. What do the energized plants offer humans?
(a) a close identity with plant life
(b) ways to see in the dark
(c) more nutrients for the body to absorb when they are eaten
(d) psychological insights

3. What does Charlene tell the narrator about?
(a) a friend in a Peruvian jail
(b) a special resort in Peru
(c) a job in Peru he might want
(d) a Manuscript found in Peru

4. Who is studying the effects these energized plants have on the people who eat them?
(a) a botanist
(b) a microbiologist
(c) a nutritionist
(d) an astronomer

5. What coincidence happens when the narrator gets up to go to the restroom?
(a) He finds a copy of the First Insight in the magazine rack.
(b) He hears a man mention the Manuscript to a stewardess.
(c) He meets and old friend from his university.
(d) He hears someone talking about a disappeared priest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the purpose of the Viciente Lodge?

2. How does Dobson say the Middle Ages were defined?

3. What is special about the forest around Viciente Lodge?

4. What are the people in the novel either searching for or trying to suppress?

5. What happens when researchers use their own energy to add to the energy around the plants, and show concern for the plants?

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