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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happens when people start to question the church?
(a) society begins to fall apart
(b) society becomes totally atheistic
(c) the church launches persecution
(d) society turns from the spiritual to the scientific

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

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

5. What is Sarah talking about when she says that everything on earth consists of energy and is malleable to human intention and expectation?
(a) global warming
(b) her work in physics
(c) the theory of relativity
(d) theThird Insight

6. What will the restlessness cause people to do?
(a) retreat into their shells
(b) take unnecessary risks
(c) demand too much from each other
(d) commit serious crimes

7. On the plane, what does the narrator say about understanding the Second Insight?
(a) He says he needs more information.
(b) He says he doesn't.
(c) He says he does.
(d) He says he doesn't agree with it.

8. How has the Third Insight been used experimentally at Viciente Lodge?
(a) to keep the wrong people out
(b) to produce electricity from plant energy
(c) to measure energy fields
(d) to affect the way plants grow

9. When they meet a German scientist, what does he do?
(a) shares his notes with Sarah
(b) turns around and walks away
(c) asks Sarah to teach him
(d) attacks Sarah about their research

10. What does Sarah tell the narrator is possible to see?
(a) indications of weather coming weather change
(b) the thoughts of other people
(c) a plant actually growing
(d) the energy around everything and everyone

11. With all the information the narrator got from Charlene, why does he go out into the garden?
(a) to breathe the fresh air
(b) to clear his head
(c) to smoke a cigar
(d) to check on the weather

12. What does the narrator promise Charlene?
(a) to tell his friends about the Manuscript
(b) to call and write often
(c) to check deeper into the Manuscript.
(d) to see her safely on her flight

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sarah want to know if the narrator can see?

2. Why does the narrator call the police?

3. Who found the Manuscript and translated it?

4. What does Reneau say the girl accomplishes by throwing the pie?

5. Why does the church oppose the Manuscript?

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