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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. Richard has seen the movie because he was asked, and so, too, do many choose _________ that allow them to do things together.
(a) Friends
(b) Paths
(c) Lifetimes
(d) Answers

2. What does Shimoda say he can always do if Richard offers to pay him for advice or to help him with his engine troubles?
(a) Run away
(b) Laugh
(c) Turn him down
(d) Disappear

3. Shimoda says that if someone says he has something or acts as though he has something, then _________.
(a) He is not welcome.
(b) He has it
(c) He is a Master
(d) He is crazy

4. What movie does Shimoda suggest they go to see when they are done with their dinner?
(a) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
(b) Jesus Christ Superstar
(c) Bonnie and Clyde
(d) All the President's Men

5. Richard cannot picture Jesus returning to being a _____________.
(a) Messiah
(b) Pilot
(c) Carpenter
(d) Family man

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Richard realize about his attempts with the clouds? He is making things __________.

2. Who does the Master pray to as he begins to feel fatigued by his work as the Messiah?

3. Shimoda says no one else likes Richard's breakfast choice because only Richard believes it _________.

4. The image of a sunset is a dream, but the ________ is real.

5. What kind of biplane does Richard own and use in his gypsy flying business?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Shimoda claim to Richard when they first meet?

3. What does Shimoda assure Richard about the training to be a Messiah?

4. What does Richard have to say about life when eating dinner with Shimoda in Hammond, Wisconsin?

5. What does Shimoda say to Richard's question about the pages in the book not being numbered?

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

7. What did Donald W. Shimoda retire from being, according to the beginning of the story?

8. Why hasn't returning to normal life been easy for Shimoda?

9. What happens when Shimoda tosses Richard a wrench as they are working on the engine?

10. When Richard cannot vaporize clouds, what does he realize about the process?

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