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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Dwarf ask of Sarah?
(a) If she left him.
(b) If she hated him.
(c) If she loved him.
(d) If she missed him.

2. What does the table represent in Chapter 14?
(a) God.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Love.
(d) Time.

3. Which ghost does the narrator encounter in the small clearing in Chapter 8?
(a) The Big Man.
(b) The Dwarf.
(c) The Well-Dressed Woman.
(d) The Tragedian.

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

5. Who are the young men and women on either side of Sarah, according to MacDonald?
(a) Her angels.
(b) Her sons and daughters.
(c) Her lovers.
(d) Her sisters and brothers.

6. What does the narrator say the Dwarf shrinks to the size of?
(a) A flea.
(b) A bird.
(c) A dog.
(d) A kitten.

7. What does the Well-Dressed Ghost in the forest tell the Solid One following her?
(a) To take her to her husband.
(b) To leave her alone.
(c) To help her sleep.
(d) To take her to the mountain.

8. What does the Solid One tell the Well-Dressed Ghost he can't completely do?
(a) Kiss her.
(b) Carry her.
(c) Heal her.
(d) Save her.

9. What was Pam's husband's name?
(a) Roy.
(b) Dick.
(c) James.
(d) Andrew.

10. What does the Solid Man say that Pam is only using as a means to get to her son?
(a) Hope.
(b) Joy.
(c) God.
(d) Anger.

11. Who says, "Can't you understand anything? Do you really suppose I'm going out there among all those people, like this?"
(a) The Dwarf.
(b) MacDonald.
(c) The Well-Dressed Ghost.
(d) The Tragedian.

12. What in the song sung by the followers of Sarah cannot scare her in the night?
(a) The angels.
(b) The demons.
(c) The bogies.
(d) The ghosts.

13. What does MacDonald say is young?
(a) God.
(b) Love.
(c) Goodness.
(d) Redeemed humanity.

14. What, according to MacDonald, can a horse not sympathize with?
(a) A man.
(b) An angel.
(c) A rat.
(d) A roach.

15. What does the Solid Person remind Pam that her son was at first?
(a) An abomination.
(b) A brat.
(c) A miracle.
(d) An accident.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator wonder that the whole trip of the Ghosts might be for in Chapter 8?

2. What is MacDonald's first name?

3. What happens to the Tragedian?

4. What does Sarah say that the Dwarf can no longer communicate here?

5. What does the Solid One tell the Well-Dressed Ghost to drink the cup of?

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