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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What about the space felt different after the narrator got out of the bus?
(a) It felt larger.
(b) It felt oppressive.
(c) It felt dark.
(d) It felt smaller.

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

3. What is different about the people approaching from the mountain than the passengers on the bus?
(a) They are dead.
(b) They are ghosts.
(c) They are living.
(d) They are solid.

4. After he gets off the bus, what does the narrator try to pick?
(a) A fig.
(b) A daisy.
(c) An apple.
(d) An orange.

5. What does the narrator note about the other passengers when they exit the bus?
(a) They are transparent.
(b) They are glowing.
(c) They are white.
(d) They are sooty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Short Man do after his interaction with the Big Man in the line?

2. Where is the one place the narrator encounters people in the gray town?

3. After exiting the bus, what does the narrator realize the other passengers are?

4. What does the man on the bus hope to gain by bringing something back on this trip?

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

(see the answer key)

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