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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, The Longer Now.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to the priest Charlene went to see about the Manuscript?
(a) He was dead when she got there.
(b) He refused to speak ot her.
(c) He disappeared.
(d) He was arrested.

2. What happens while the narrator is running away?
(a) He loses one of his shoes.
(b) He feels the wind of pullets past his ears.
(c) He runs behind a bus and disappears.
(d) A man stops him and takes him to a safe house.

3. What are the people in the novel either searching for or trying to suppress?
(a) tablets of stone older than the Ten Commandments
(b) an ancient Incan stela with magic powers
(c) a document they call the Manuscript
(d) an archeologist who found the Manuscript

4. Who is the man who rescues the Narrator?
(a) Wilson James
(b) Police sergeat Ortiz
(c) Wayne Dobson
(d) Father Sanchez

5. What has preceded Dobson on this trip to Peru?
(a) a letter to the Peruvian government
(b) an act of Congress
(c) an appeal from the president
(d) the cooperation of the embassy

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator call the police?

2. What does Dobson say scientists try to do?

3. Outside with the narrator, what does Charlene become aware of?

4. What does the narrator think about that makes him agree with Charlene?

5. What is Charlene doing when the narrator arrives at the restaurant?

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