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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Og describe himself when he was pulled from the junk pile?
(a) broke, alone, drinking
(b) angry and violent
(c) tired and sick
(d) sad and confused

2. What did Simon believe one should do after making a decision?
(a) get busy on it
(b) sit and plan it out
(c) pray
(d) burn your bridges

3. What is Og's real name?
(a) Obelius
(b) James
(c) Augustine
(d) Ogden

4. What famous person did Simon use to illustrate what to do after making a decision?
(a) Caesar
(b) Socrates
(c) Alexander the Great
(d) George Washington

5. How did Simon demonstrate a miracle to Og?
(a) healing his cut finger
(b) dropping a paperweight
(c) levitating
(d) reading Og's mind

6. Who said: "soil, no matter how rich, could not be productive without cultivation?"
(a) Socrates
(b) Seneca
(c) Andrew Jackson
(d) Sitting Bull

7. Simon said God often plays man. What else did he say in this vein?
(a) God and man are the same
(b) No man can play God
(c) God can play who he wants
(d) Men try to play God

8. What did Og ask of God in the church?
(a) for money
(b) for a wife
(c) for a new job
(d) for guidance and courage

9. Where does Simon invite Og the second time they meet?
(a) to his apartment
(b) to a bar
(c) to the movie theater
(d) to a restaurant

10. Who picked Og off the junk pile sixteen years previously?
(a) Deepak Chopra
(b) Abraham Maslow
(c) Lonnie Goodman
(d) W. Clement Stone

11. How did Og feel about Simon after the first couple of times they met?
(a) happy and excited
(b) sad
(c) confused
(d) frightened and fascinated

12. Why did Simon think raising the dead was still being done today?
(a) most people are living dead
(b) there is no such thing as death
(c) the doctors bring people back all the time
(d) no one knows when someone is really dead

13. What did Simon want Og to remember when he called to him from the window in Chapter 3?
(a) his birthday
(b) their lunch date
(c) a bottle of sherry
(d) Og's book

14. Who included a Bible verse about good deeds in a novel?
(a) Lloyd C. Douglas
(b) Ernest Hemmingway
(c) Robert Frost
(d) F. Scott Fitzgerald

15. How did the gate at Og's building open?
(a) to the right
(b) upward
(c) sliding backwards
(d) to the left

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was interested in acquiring Og Mandino's first book?

2. When Simon called over to Og, who did he quote?

3. Why does Og tell Simon he looks great when Simon visits Og's office?

4. How many questions about Simon did Og mumble to himself as he walked into his office in Chapter 3?

5. Who said, "whatever we allow to enter our minds will bear fruit?"

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