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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is characteristic of an aloof drama person?

2. Where does Julia suggest Marjorie go the next day?

3. What do they see along the road and head for?

4. What suddenly happens as the narrator walks toward Marjorie?

5. What does Julia see that causes her to try and separate the narrator and Marjorie?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the priest's instruction to experience the Fifth Insight.

2. How does the narrator learn to use the Sixth Insight?

3. What is the narrator's behavior that Father Sanchez points out is a control drama?

4. How do the narrator and Marjorie escape the soldiers on the way to see Sebastian?

5. Explain how the narrator is arrested and the coincidence of his cell mate.

6. Describe how the conversation turns back at Father Carl's house.

7. What are the thoughts going through the narrator's mind at Father Carl's cabin?

8. Describe the coincidences that follow the narrator's choice of forks in the road.

9. What is revealed in the narrator's description of his parents?

10. How will Father Carl help the narrator?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay on the subject "Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows." The thrust of the essay includes how the church and Certain scientists are united in opposing the Manuscript. Normally, there is more of a conflict between the church and science. Explain why they are united against the Manuscript.

Essay Topic 2

Coincidence in literature is usually almost, if not completely, unbelievable. Explain why that is. What makes the constant coincidences in THE CELESTINE PROPHECY acceptable to the reader? You might want to include the tale of "Androcles and the Lion" to illustrate the skepticism of improbability in such a tale.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay about searching for deeper meanings. In your essay discuss how such a search is never ending. Explain why, even in a religious sense, it is not possible for a person to ever learn everything there is to know.

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