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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. Dickie wants to know if Richard's _______________________ has/have taught him how things work.
(a) writing.
(b) advanced degree.
(c) fifty extra years of experience on earth.
(d) travels.

2. In Chapter 17, Richard tells a story about hanging out with friends who want to ___________________.
(a) smoke cigarettes.
(b) travel the world.
(c) join the army.
(d) drink beer.

3. The cracked dry earth where Dickie lives symbolizes _______________________.
(a) open space for ideas.
(b) the desert of Richard's childhood.
(c) financial restrictions.
(d) lack of creativity.

4. Over what body of water does Richard paraglide?
(a) Puget Sound.
(b) Atlantic Ocean.
(c) Lake Erie.
(d) Mississippi River.

5. Dickie is the age that Richard was when _______________________.
(a) his brother died.
(b) he was on the hockey team.
(c) he fell in love.
(d) he got his driver's license.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has the power to bring Richard's memories out?

2. How does Richard feel when he looks through the book?

3. Richard's wife feels that Dickie may help Richard _______________________.

4. Shepherd reminds Richard that Richard has a passion for _________________ when he was young.

5. What does Richard do with the book?

Short Essay Questions

1. What philosophy about numbers does Richard share with Dickie?

2. What is the purpose of different people coming into Richard's life?

3. Describe Dickie's sense of accomplishment in the water tower incident.

4. Describe what Richard sees when Leslie encourages him to remember when he was nine, right after his brother's death.

5. Who is Sheperd and how does Richard encounter him?

6. What does Richard want to do for Dickie and why will this be a daunting task?

7. What does Richard tell Dickie are the two things necessary to get through life?

8. Explain the metaphor of being captain of your own ship as Richard explains it to Dickie.

9. What is the landscape in which Richard finds Dickie in his mind and what does it symbolize?

10. What does Dickie manage to teach to Richard even though Richard is providing instruction during the flight?

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