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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 does the man in the wheelchair do that makes the scene look staged, according to Richard?
(a) Shakily walks to the plane
(b) Flies from his seat
(c) Dances a jig
(d) Runs to the cockpit

2. Where does the Master, as referenced in the title, originally have a job when he is found to be a Messiah?
(a) Medical office
(b) Auto repair shop
(c) Copy center
(d) Airport

3. Richard truly believes he will find a __________ to help him.
(a) Teacher
(b) Religion
(c) Guru
(d) God

4. Even the best movie is ______________, according to Shimoda.
(a) A farce
(b) An illusion
(c) A chance to escape responsibility
(d) A lesson

5. Richard reads about being led through life by an inner _____________.
(a) Intuition
(b) Motivation
(c) Is
(d) Spiritual creature

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who refuses to fly when they arrive at Shimoda and Richard's setup area?

3. What kind of plane makes Richard land his plane in order to get a better look?

4. What is the reason Richard gives for going to the movie? He wants to see _________.

5. 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 _____________.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What are two names Shimoda admits to being representative of who he really is?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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