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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. What is the reason Richard gives for going to the movie? He wants to see _________.
(a) The importance of the movie
(b) Other people's reactions
(c) The ending
(d) The stars

2. What is different about this book that Richard notices when he opens up the pages and flips around?
(a) The pages are all the same
(b) The word are flashing as he reads
(c) No page numbers
(d) It's in a different language

3. Who is the person who is terrified of heights?
(a) Sarah
(b) John
(c) Shimoda
(d) Richard

4. Whose permission does a gypsy flier need to have in order to land in a certain location?
(a) Another pilot's
(b) Field owner
(c) The customer's
(d) Mayor

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Richard cook when he wakes up in the morning next to his plane?

3. What does the Messiah say to the greater being when he is sorry he has let it go this long?

4. Shimoda says that if someone says he has something or acts as though he has something, then _________.

5. Richard says that being ___________ and finished is boring.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Shimoda suddenly furious with Richard about his question about the landing?

2. What does the book say about the idea of clouds and their impressions of the world?

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

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

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

6. What message from the book does Richard think does not apply to him?

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

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

9. What does Richard see for the first time in years when he is flying over Ferris, Indiana?

10. What does Richard do in order to readjust to the loneliness of not having Shimoda around?

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