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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Clearing the Past.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are Father Sanchez and the narrator expecting to see near Machu Picchu?
(a) Wil
(b) Julia and Rolando
(c) Phil
(d) Father Carl

2. What does the narrator believe he understands now?
(a) why the church opposes the Manuscript
(b) the reason he chose to stay
(c) the main points of the Third Insight
(d) why Dobson was shot

3. What is the Peruvian government's attitude toward the Manuscript?
(a) that it must be preserved
(b) that it belongs to the Peruvian people
(c) that it is a radical hoax
(d) that it does not exist

4. What does the narrator see when he watches Sarah concentrate on a bush?
(a) her skin color change to green
(b) the bush beginning to grow
(c) the bush begin to tremble
(d) her energy feeding into the bush

5. What happens to the man following the Narrator up into the mountain?
(a) He turns around and goes back down.
(b) He has a heart attack
(c) He is shot.
(d) He falls off the ridge.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does the church oppose the Manuscript?

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

4. What has Wayne Dobson found when he went to see a priest that never showed up?

5. Why does the narrator eat only vegetables at dinner?

(see the answer key)

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