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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Female Ghost call the Solid Woman to whom she speaks of Robert?
(a) Bethany.
(b) Isabelle.
(c) Hilda.
(d) Gertrude.

2. What does the man on the bus hope to gain by bringing something back on this trip?
(a) A following.
(b) A business.
(c) Faith.
(d) A love.

3. Who is Robert to the Ghost who insists on not seeing him?
(a) Her son.
(b) Her brother.
(c) Her husband.
(d) Her father.

4. What does MacDonald say that Heaven is?
(a) Reality itself.
(b) God's lap.
(c) A state of mind.
(d) A garden.

5. What time of day is it when the story begins?
(a) Morning.
(b) Dawn.
(c) Noon.
(d) Evening.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did they tell the Hard-Bitten Ghost when he was in the nursery?

2. What does the Big Man call it when he learns that the Solid Man was sent for him?

3. What grows on the tree that the narrator encounters?

4. What has become almost unbearable for the narrator at the beginning of Chapter 3?

5. Where did the Tousle-Headed Poet want to go, but couldn't because of financial troubles?

(see the answer key)

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