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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. Why does the narrator not get out of the taxi at his hotel?
(a) there are soldiers standing outside
(b) the hotel is on fire
(c) another taxi is following him
(d) the taxi driver knows a cheaper hotel

3. What does the narrator see as he continues to run from the gunfire?
(a) He sees Peruvian troops.
(b) He sees a church door open.
(c) He sees some armed civilians.
(d) He sees Dobson fall.

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

5. What does the Manuscript predict?
(a) a major world war by 2020
(b) the arrival of space aliens
(c) the end of the world in 1999
(d) a change in human society in the late twentieth century

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the church oppose the Manuscript?

2. What does Wilson James say he wants to find?

3. What does the historian say should be more important than studying actions in the past?

4. How many Insights does Charlene say the Manuscript contains?

5. On the plane, what does the narrator say about understanding the Second Insight?

(see the answer key)

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