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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Shimoda says that his landing can be explained by the simple statement that the world and everything in it are ____________.
(a) Real
(b) Beliefs
(c) Magic
(d) Illusion

2. What is the feeling Richard continues to have when in the presence of Shimoda?
(a) Happiness
(b) Calmness
(c) Dread
(d) Anger

3. Richard cannot ______ clouds during attempts he makes between taking passengers up in his plane.
(a) Move
(b) Vaporize
(c) Reform
(d) Destroy

4. What does Richard do in order to keep from thinking while he is sitting out by the fire?
(a) Reads a romance novel
(b) Prays
(c) Sleeps
(d) Sings endless songs

5. What does Shimoda float in front of Richard, just for his own amusement?
(a) Glass
(b) Screwdriver
(c) Book
(d) Feather

Short Answer Questions

1. What do people say, according to Shimoda, in order to avoid responsibility?

2. What does Richard think is trying to replace his own thinking, thus he tells himself not to listen to it?

3. Shimoda gives Richard a book that is apparently what Masters use in order to train themselves to become Masters. What is it called?

4. The Master asks what the people would do if God were to command them to _______.

5. The world, the book says, is one's ________ book rather than reality.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Shimoda say when Richard asks him why no one likes his pan-bread?

2. What cares nothing about human illusions and games?

3. What does Richard answer when Shimoda asks him why he is at the movie?

4. What does Shimoda give to Richard when Richard asks how Shimoda can know so much and how he can learn about being a Messiah?

5. Describe the story the Messiah uses in order to answer the millworker's objection that the Master does not have to work.

6. What is the passage Shimoda shares with Richard after the situation that occurs in #19?

7. What leaves Richard dumbfounded after he tries to impress Shimoda with a show-off landing?

8. What is the non-miracle that Shimoda wants Richard to see?

9. What do gypsy fliers need in order to fly their planes and to land them in the fields?

10. What does Shimoda tell Richard to do in order to vaporize clouds?

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