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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. Who are Father Sanchez and the narrator expecting to see near Machu Picchu?

2. Who turns out to be the organizer behind the suppression of the Manuscript?

3. What happens when a soldier gets near the narrator on the mountain ridge?

4. What does Pablo warn the narrator about?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Tell a little about the exchange between the narrator and Father Sanchez the morning after the narrator is rescued.

2. Mention something about the warning Pablo gives the narrator before he is taken to see Cardinal Sebastian.

3. What is the information the narrator receives about Wil from Father Carl?

4. Describe how Marjorie gets arrested.

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

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

7. How is the concept of the control drama introduced?

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

9. How will Father Carl help the narrator?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay on radicalism. Using Cardinal Sebastian as an example, show how even a religious person may sometime become so radical that he or she will stop at nothing to perpetuate a rigid idea.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay on New Age thought. Note in your essay that the term New Age may be misleading since it has existed as early as the eighteenth century. In your essay suggest why so many people have been drawn to the New Age way of thinking.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay on parables. In the essay explain how parables make it easier for people to understand a deeper meaning. On a very basic level, you might want to refer to some of Aesop's fables.

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