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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Big Man call it when he learns that the Solid Man was sent for him?
(a) A reward.
(b) A trick.
(c) A triumph.
(d) A joy.

2. What does the woman in the line say to the man she's with?
(a) "Very well then. I won't go at all."
(b) "Hurry up. We're late."
(c) "I told you I didn't want to come here."
(d) "It's all your fault we're going anyway."

3. Where is the bus riding after some time?
(a) Into the sky.
(b) Into the mountainside.
(c) Into the earth.
(d) Onto a long bridge.

4. What does the Solid Man tell the Big Man there is none of here?
(a) Indignity.
(b) Private affairs.
(c) Love.
(d) Resentment.

5. Who comes to sit next to the narrator on the bus?
(a) An old man.
(b) A young woman.
(c) An old woman.
(d) A tousle-haired youth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the man on the bus say that you don't meet historical characters in the gray town?

2. What does the Big Man repeatedly insist on getting?

3. How had the Tousle-Headed Poet killed himself?

4. What looms ever closer in the beginning of Chapter 3 as the bus rises?

5. What does the Big Man ask the Solid Man in Chapter 4?

(see the answer key)

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