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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, The Struggle for Power.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Dobson explain the Second Insight?
(a) as a reason to keep looking for the Manuscript
(b) as a new way of looking at our history
(c) as a way to locate people
(d) as a new way to consider mathematics

2. What does the narrator discover when he wakes the morning after camping with Wil and Reneau?
(a) Wil and Reneau are already up.
(b) There is a llama in their camp.
(c) It is raining hard.
(d) Wil and Reneau have already left.

3. Why is the Manuscript in danger of disappearing?
(a) the opposition of the Peruvian government and the church
(b) blackmarketeers are out looking for it
(c) the inability to translate the ancient language
(d) the parchment is too fragile to move

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

5. What will people need to overcome their restlessness?
(a) more consciousness of the meaning of experiences
(b) more new challenges to face
(c) more time spent alone
(d) more reading of the Manuscript

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dobson say scientists try to do?

2. What happens when people start to question the church?

3. What does Dobson tell the narrator to do?

4. Who is the man named Chris Reneau who resembles a friend of the narrator's?

5. How does Marjorie know that the narrator is interested in her?

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