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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Julia see in the relationship between the narrator and Marjorie?
(a) doubt and uncertainty
(b) dependence based on gratitude and not love
(c) a happy future at a later time
(d) eventual power struggles
2. What has the narrator's aloofness kept him from doing?
(a) making a new friend
(b) learning what Rolando knows
(c) saying too much to an enemy
(d) speaking with Rolando
3. 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 falls off the ridge.
(d) He is shot.
4. Why does the narrator eventually see that his parents were interrogators?
(a) remembering their questions before correcting him
(b) remembering how they checked up on him through his friends
(c) remembering how they sat him down with a light in his eyes
(d) remembering how they never bluntly critisized his actions
5. Why is the young man, Pablo, in prison with the narrator?
(a) He had three copies of the Manuscript in his saddle bags.
(b) He was selling copies of the Manuscript.
(c) He was aking questions about the Manuscript.
(d) He had been teaching children about the Manuscript.
Short Answer Questions
1. After meeting Father Carl at Machu Picchu, why does the narrator remain there when the priest goes home?
2. Who do Father Sanchez and the narrator come across on the way to Machu Picchu?
3. Why does Julia's suggestion anger Marjorie?
4. In a feeling of euphoria, what happens to the narrator?
5. How does Father Sanchez label the narrator's control drama?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the priest's instruction to experience the Fifth Insight.
2. What are the thoughts going through the narrator's mind at Father Carl's cabin?
3. How will Father Carl help the narrator?
4. Comment on the narrator's out of body experience.
5. Relate what happens when gunfire erupts in the village of Cula.
6. Why does Julia advise against Marjorie's going on to Iquitos?
7. Describe the coincidences that follow the narrator's choice of forks in the road.
8. Explain how the narrator is arrested and the coincidence of his cell mate.
9. How do the narrator and Marjorie escape the soldiers on the way to see Sebastian?
10. What is the narrator's behavior that Father Sanchez points out is a control drama?
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