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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. In Part I, who or what does the narrator meet at the riverside?
(a) A talking peacock.
(b) Mermaids.
(c) Charles the Great.
(d) Puss 'n Boots.

2. What is the unanimously observed rule of the group?
(a) Pay homage to all the ancient places of the League.
(b) Preach their gospel to all they met.
(c) Convert unbelievers along their journey,
(d) Go to Africa and rescue a member from the Moors.

3. According to H.H. what is new to the group in Part II?
(a) Their spirituality.
(b) Their goals.
(c) Their leader.
(d) Their disputes.

4. In Part I, what does the narrator believe is his great fortune?
(a) To find a rare map.
(b) To belong to the League.
(c) To be a gifted writer.
(d) To inherit a modest fortune.

5. In Part I, what holds up the journey's progress in a small provincial town?
(a) The Journey leader quits.
(b) Terrible flooding.
(c) The Prince of the provinces.
(d) The opposition of Saturn and the moon.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part One, who does the narrator quote as saying, "Where are we really going"?

2. What leads to heated arguments within the group at the beginning of Part II?

3. What is it that H.H. says a historian searches for in events?

4. What happens to H.H.'s first attempt to tell his story?

5. How does H.H. describe his demeanor in Part II?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does H.H. say happens to the overall mood of the journey at the beginning of Part II?

2. Why do you think H.H. compares his journey to a comet?

3. How does H.H. describe his self-reflection at the end of Part II?

4. What spiritual advances does H.H. say occurs just after the World War?

5. In Part I, why does H.H. decide to try to write a description of his journey?

6. What does H.H. say is his personal goal on the League's journey to the east?

7. In Part II, what begins to happen to the unity of the journey members?

8. Who does H.H. compare his journey and its participants to in Part II?

9. Why does H.H. say that the journey servant, Leo, seems wiser than he appears?

10. In Part I, why does H.H. say it is his "destiny" to join in a great experience?

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