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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 Short Man do after his interaction with the Big Man in the line?
(a) Laughs.
(b) Limps away.
(c) Pushes the Big Man down.
(d) Slaps the narrator.

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

3. Whom does the man on the bus say is the nearest of the "old ones"?
(a) Napoleon.
(b) Julius Caesar.
(c) Mahatma Ghandi.
(d) Cleopatra.

4. What does the man on the bus say is lacking in the gray town?
(a) Needs.
(b) Hate.
(c) Worry.
(d) Love.

5. Where did the Tousle-Headed Poet want to go, but couldn't because of financial troubles?
(a) Sweden.
(b) America.
(c) Russia.
(d) England.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Napoleon doing when the two men went to see him?

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

3. What does the Solid Man who speaks to the Big Man say can't be done here?

4. What looms in the distance as the narrator examines his surroundings off the bus?

5. What sound does the narrator hear from the stillness of the open door before he exits the bus?

(see the answer key)

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