Part 1

Questions

1. Where does Santiago fall asleep with his sheep?
2. Why is Santiago stoked about the village he'll arrive at in four days?
3. Where did Santiago meet the pretty girl?
4. What does Santiago worry has happened since he last met the girl?
5. Why does Santiago visit an old woman in Tarifa?
6. What did Santiago dream about?
7. What does the gypsy woman make Santiago promise to give her if she interprets his dream?
8. What is the gypsy woman's interpretation of Santiago's dream?
9. Why does the old man say that Santiago's book is irritating?
10. What is the world's greatest lie?
11. Who does the nosy old man say that he is?
12. What does Melchizedek ask for in return for telling Santiago how to find the treasure?
13. What does Melchizedek do to convince Santiago he's not a con artist?
14. What does Melchizedek tell Santiago that everyone has?
15. What do people start to think about their Personal Legend as they get older?
16. Why does Melchizedek say that the universe works toward everyone meeting their goals?
17. What are the names of the stones that Melchizedek gives to Santiago?
18. What did the wise man tell the boy to do in the story Melchizedek tells to Santiago?
19. Why couldn't the boy tell the wise man anything when he's asked what he had seen while walking around the mansion trying not to spill the teaspoon full of oil?
20. What does the boy find when he pays attention to the art and architecture while walking around the mansion with the teaspoon full of oil?
21. What is the wisdom of the wise man?
22. What does Melchizedek know as he watches Santiago's little ship cross the strait?
23. Why can't Santiago talk to anyone in the bar in Tangier?
24. Who does Santiago tell about his quest to get to the pyramids?
25. What does Santiago realize has happened after he gets distracted by the sword in the market?
26. What does Santiago think it means when the stones fall through a hole in the pouch?
27. What does Santiago get in return for helping a candy seller set up his stall?
28. What does Santiago realize about language while with the candy seller?
29. What does Santiago offer to do for the crystal merchant?
30. What do Santiago and the crystal merchant decide upon when they go out for lunch?
31. How long does Santiago decide to work in the shop for?

Answers

1. He falls asleep in an abandoned church.
2. He met a pretty girl there the year before.
3. He met her at her dad's shop, where he was selling wool.
4. He's worried that she's forgotten him.
5. He wants her to interpret his dream.
6. He watched a child playing with his sheep, when suddenly the child took his hand and transported him to the pyramids, before saying Santiago would find a hidden treasure if he went to the pyramids.
7. He must give her one tenth of his treasure.
8. He should go to the pyramids in Egypt and find treasure there.
9. It tells the world's greatest lie.
10. The lie is that fate rules and people can't choose their own destiny.
11. He says he's Melchizedek, the King of Salem.
12. He asks for one tenth of his sheep.
13. He writes down Santiago's life story in the sand.
14. He says everyone has a Personal Legend.
15. They come to believe that it's impossible to achieve.
16. The Soul of the World is happy when the people who live in the world are happy.
17. They're called Urim and Thummim.
18. He told him to walk around the mansion with a teaspoon full of oil without spilling a drop.
19. He had been so focused on not spilling the oil.
20. He finds that he spilled all the oil.
21. He teaches the importance of seeing the marvels of the world and never forgetting the drops of oil on the spoon.
22. He realizes that he'll never see Santiago again,
23. He doesn't speak Arabic.
24. He speaks of the young Moroccan boy.
25. The young Moroccan boy has robbed him.
26. He thinks it's a sign that he should make his own decisions.
27. He receives a sweet.
28. There's a language that doesn't use words.
29. He offers to clean the glasses in the window.
30. They agree that Santiago will stay on to work in the man's shop officially.
31. He'll stay just long enough to buy sheep and head back to Spain.