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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. Why does Simon call himself a ragpicker?
(a) he pulls treasures out of dumpsters
(b) he picks people off the junk piles of their lives
(c) he weaves material out of rags
(d) he wears simple, old clothes

2. Who said, "whatever we allow to enter our minds will bear fruit?"
(a) John Kennedy
(b) Socrates
(c) Og
(d) Simon

3. What does Simon believe all people can do?
(a) learn to be good
(b) complete a miracle
(c) fall off the God path
(d) good and bad

4. What did Simon ask Og about miracles?
(a) if he really believed in miracles
(b) who was a modern miracle worker
(c) what was the greatest one ever done
(d) why miracles didn't happen

5. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Simon get the cross he wears?

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

3. What did Og say to Simon about Simon's eyes?

4. What does Simon believe about the books in his apartment?

5. What did Simon say caused living death?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were a few things Simon told Og about miracles?

2. What happened to Og right after he saw Simon in the snow?

3. What did Simon suggest to Og when he was having trouble with the gate and what happened?

4. What did Simon think was the biggest problem mankind had?

5. Who is Simon Potter and what does he do?

6. What happened to Simon's family?

7. What did Og think he and Simon could do together?

8. What did Og find the last time he went to see Simon?

9. Why was Og feeling pressured on the day he met Simon for the second time?

10. What did Simon tell Og he believed about the mind?

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