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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did they tell the Hard-Bitten Ghost when he was in the nursery?
(a) If life were easy, it wouldn't be worth it.
(b) If he was good, he'd be happy.
(c) If he was good, he'd get candy.
(d) If he could count to three, he'd be happy.

2. What does Pam say she'd be perfectly happy if she had?
(a) Heaven.
(b) God.
(c) Michael.
(d) Love.

3. What does the ghost leaning against the tree chew on?
(a) A strawberry.
(b) A twig.
(c) A ghostly cheroot.
(d) An apple.

4. Who says, "I don't see what all the talk is about. It's as good as any other park to look at, and darned uncomfortable?"
(a) The Hard-Bitten Ghost.
(b) The narrator.
(c) MacDonald.
(d) The Water Giant.

5. What does the narrator come to envy as he begins exploring?
(a) A flower.
(b) A bee.
(c) A bird.
(d) A tree.

Short Answer Questions

1. What proves difficult for the narrator when wandering the new land?

2. Who says, "I gone straight all my life. I don't say I was a religious man and I don't say I had no faults, far from it. But I done all my best all my life, see?"

3. Whom did the Solid Man who speaks to the Big Man murder?

4. What does the ghost by the tree tell the narrator all of his travels were summed up to be?

5. What does the ghost by the tree refer to the idea of staying?

(see the answer key)

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