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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the opening to Chapter 3, Og was yelled at by Simon. Where was Simon?
(a) by Og's office door
(b) in a snow drift
(c) hanging out an apartment window
(d) in a taxi

2. Simon said God often plays man. What else did he say in this vein?
(a) No man can play God
(b) God and man are the same
(c) God can play who he wants
(d) Men try to play God

3. What did Og's mother do with his writings?
(a) burn them
(b) read and criticized them
(c) hid them
(d) nothing

4. What does Simon believe about the books in his apartment?
(a) they need to be rewritten
(b) they are bestsellers
(c) they are hard to find
(d) they were written by the hand of God

5. How many questions about Simon did Og mumble to himself as he walked into his office in Chapter 3?
(a) two
(b) three
(c) four
(d) five

6. What does Simon do in his life?
(a) he practices law
(b) he's retired
(c) he writes books
(d) helps people

7. Why did Og stop going to church?
(a) his father died
(b) he left for college
(c) his mother died
(d) his dog ran away

8. When Simon called over to Og, who did he quote?
(a) Robert Frost
(b) Thomas Carlyle
(c) George Washington
(d) Thomas Moore

9. Why does Og want to stay at the magazine?
(a) he likes his secretary
(b) he likes working there
(c) it gives him structure
(d) he needs the money

10. How does Og describe himself when he was pulled from the junk pile?
(a) tired and sick
(b) angry and violent
(c) broke, alone, drinking
(d) sad and confused

11. What was Og's connection with James Stewart?
(a) Og was a bombardier in his flight group
(b) he's his brother-in-law
(c) he's a cousin
(d) Og was in his army platoon

12. What are two of the examples Simon gave of God communicating to the world?
(a) King David and Soloman
(b) Moses and Ezekiel
(c) Buddha and Ghandi
(d) Abe Lincoln and Harriet B. Stowe

13. Where did Simon get the cross he wears?
(a) from his mother
(b) from a man he helped
(c) from a dumpster
(d) from his brother

14. What did Simon say caused living death?
(a) lack of self-esteem
(b) lack of money
(c) lack of education
(d) lack of beauty

15. Why does Simon call himself a ragpicker?
(a) he weaves material out of rags
(b) he picks people off the junk piles of their lives
(c) he pulls treasures out of dumpsters
(d) he wears simple, old clothes

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Simon say many people are?

2. How did Og feel about Simon after the first couple of times they met?

3. Why did Simon think people could change their lives?

4. What did Simon do after he drove through the gate?

5. If a person thinks negative thoughts, according to Simon what will happen?

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