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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who objects that the Master does not need to work for a living?
(a) Deli owner
(b) Doctor
(c) Mill-man
(d) Postal worker

2. What does Richard wish for Shimoda as Richard is sitting by his fire?
(a) That he fuels his plane
(b) The he gets to Heaven
(c) That he find peace
(d) That he gets whatever he wants

3. What does Richard realize about Shimoda's plane at about 3:00 P.M. as they are beginning to head out?
(a) It is gone
(b) It has not moved
(c) He has not refueled
(d) It is still clean

4. Richard gets annoyed with Shimoda and his discussions because everything Richard says is ___________.
(a) Silly
(b) Wrong
(c) Incomplete
(d) Superficial

5. In response to the statement by the Master in #11, the greater being says that he has just learned that the path of happiness teaches each why they have chosen this ____________.
(a) Lifetime
(b) World
(c) Duty
(d) Path

6. Shimoda says there is not much he can do but ______________ because he gets into problems if he stays anywhere too long.
(a) Travel
(b) Hide
(c) Linger
(d) Barnstorm

7. What is the longer title for the book that Shimoda gives to Richard when he asks about how to train to become a Master? Messiah's Manual & Reminders for the _____________.
(a) Advanced Souls
(b) Curious
(c) Trainee Master
(d) Richards of the World

8. Shimoda says: Once one learns what the world is and how it works, one _________ performs so-called miracles.
(a) Automatically
(b) Then
(c) Always
(d) Tries and

9. What kind of eyes does Richard think Shimoda has as he first sees him sitting underneath his plane?
(a) Jesus'
(b) Tiger's
(c) Hawk's
(d) Cat's

10. Richard dreams about a ___________ of humanity pouring against a man.
(a) Flood
(b) Throng
(c) Sap
(d) Wine

11. Where does Shimoda go to stand when he asks Richard to watch him?
(a) On a rock
(b) On his plane
(c) On the pond
(d) On a tree branch

12. What do gypsy fliers need in addition to a long, smooth, close-cut field near a town?
(a) A hangar
(b) A set of tools
(c) An access road
(d) Permisssion fo the mayor

13. Richard begins to wonder, "If life is illusion, why _______?"
(a) Believe in anything
(b) Me
(c) Bother
(d) Live

14. What does Richard call the movement of the time period in which people are turning from the material to the spiritual?
(a) Motion of our time
(b) Motion of our minds
(c) Motion of the wind
(d) Motion of our souls

15. Whose presence does Richard feel when he wakes up at 3:00 A.M., even though he can't see him?
(a) John's
(b) Jesus'
(c) Shimoda's
(d) God's

Short Answer Questions

1. For how many years has the man in the wheelchair been in his current state?

2. What does Shimoda say he wants Richard to witness as they are in an isolated field on the Illinois-Indiana state line?

3. Shimoda tells Richard he once ___________ in front of 25,000 eyewitnesses, which is why he's always on the move.

4. What is different about this book that Richard notices when he opens up the pages and flips around?

5. The mind, or imagination, is life's _____________, according to Richard's observations.

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