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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 does the narrator observe in the garden?

2. Who catches up to the narrator as he scrambles back up into the mountain ridges.

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

4. How does Father Sanchez label the narrator's control drama?

5. What does Father Sanchez do when the narrator says he did not really speak to Rolando?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Explain how the Eighth Insight helps Julia understand what is going on between the narrator and Marjorie.

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

4. Describe the narrator's first attempt at using the Eighth Insight.

5. Describe how Marjorie gets arrested.

6. How will Father Carl help the narrator?

7. Relate what happens when gunfire erupts in the village of Cula.

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

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

10. What takes place after spending the night at Juan Hinton's house?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay about the kindest and most thoughtful person you know or have read about. What makes that person so outstanding? Discuss how such a person affects all those he or she comes in contact with. Also discuss whether you think it is possible for a person to consciously create that kind of persona or is it just something some people are born with?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay about learning by example. Specifically relate things you have learned by witnessing other people's actions as opposed to learning them from a textbook or lecture. Include how learning does not take place until it has been successfully demonstrated in some behavioral change within the learner.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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