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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 did Simon say caused living death?
(a) lack of education
(b) lack of beauty
(c) lack of money
(d) lack of self-esteem

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

3. Why did Og sit at Simon's feet?
(a) to listen to him teach
(b) there was only one chair
(c) to play with the dog
(d) he was taller than Simon

4. What does Simon believe causes most of the world's ills?
(a) greed
(b) anger
(c) lack of pride in self
(d) war

5. Why did Og go in a church to pray?
(a) his son was kidnapped
(b) he wasn't feeling well
(c) his wife was sick
(d) a publishing company wanted to meet with him

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

4. What kind of books does Simon like to read?

5. What does Simon do in his life?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Og and Simon do in the summer and fall?

2. What did Simon tell Og about God and talking to people?

3. What happened to Simon's family?

4. What did Simon ask Og to remember for the next time they met?

5. Where did Simon take Og after they met for the second time and what was Og's first impression of the place?

6. How did Simon think about handicapped people and people in jobs they hated?

7. Who did Simon quote about the similarities between Og's first book and Simon's life?

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

9. What did Simon tell Og when Og asked him how many people Simon had helped?

10. Where had Og been just before Chapter Four started?

(see the answer keys)

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