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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who, according to the Hard-Bitten Ghost, was Mother always in the same firm with?
(a) Her children.
(b) God.
(c) Jesus.
(d) Father.

2. What does Ikey end up putting in his pocket after much difficulty?
(a) The smallest apple.
(b) A cherry.
(c) A bottle.
(d) The largest apple.

3. Whom did the Solid Man who speaks to the Big Man murder?
(a) Will.
(b) Evan.
(c) Randolph.
(d) Jack.

4. What does the ghost by the tree refer to the idea of staying?
(a) Propaganda.
(b) Possible.
(c) Truth.
(d) Joyful.

5. What does Dick tell the Episcopal Ghost they reached a point that they no longer believed in?
(a) The Faith.
(b) Redemption.
(c) The truth.
(d) Justice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does the narrator use to describe the streets in the gray town?

2. What time of day is it when the story begins?

3. What does the Tousle-Headed Poet hope to find at the end of the journey?

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

5. Who says, "I don't see what all the talk is about. It's as good as any other park to look at, and darned uncomfortable?"

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the Big Man feel about his indiscretions being disclosed? What does he do?

2. What is the narrator's experience walking on the grass? What does he envy?

3. What does the narrator see coming down from the mountains to meet the ghosts? What is their appearance?

4. What does the Hard-Bitten Ghost plan on doing? Why?

5. How does the Big Man reply when the solid person offers him help up the mountain? What does the solid person try to convince him of?

6. What is the ghost in the bushes doing? Who is this ghost?

7. Where does the narrator sit on the bus? Who joins him? What does this character impart?

8. Why does the man in the bowler hat tell the narrator the gray town seemed so desolate?

9. Why does the Conscientious Objector say he threw himself in front of a train?

10. Why does the Young Man tell the narrator he is going on the bus?

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