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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. ___________ cares noting about human illusions and games and knows only itself and humans in its perfect, finished likeness.
(a) God
(b) The Is
(c) Shimoda
(d) Jesus

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

3. One never receives a __________ without the power to make it true - with work.
(a) Desire
(b) Dream
(c) Wish
(d) Gift

4. What does Shimoda think people only want from him or from other Masters and Messiahs?
(a) Easy fixes
(b) Redemption
(c) Money
(d) Miracles

5. Richard feels _______ at the healing of the man who seems to deserve it.
(a) Confusion
(b) Joy
(c) Understanding
(d) Ignored

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Richard realize about Shimoda's plane at about 3:00 P.M. as they are beginning to head out?

2. Richard deduces that movies must be like one's ___________.

3. How long does Shimoda say that Richard has to practice in order to know the answers?

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

5. What does Richard call the movement of the time period in which people are turning from the material to the spiritual?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What passage can Shimoda not recall as Richard is flipping through the section on Perspective?

4. What cares nothing about human illusions and games?

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

6. What does Shimoda tell people they are in control of, though always in the parable format?

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

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

9. Why does Richard find it difficult to look at Shimoda too closely?

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

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