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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator wonder that the whole trip of the Ghosts might be for in Chapter 8?
(a) To mock them.
(b) To cherish them.
(c) To save them.
(d) To torture them.

2. What does the Solid Man tell the Big Man there is none of here?
(a) Love.
(b) Private affairs.
(c) Resentment.
(d) Indignity.

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

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

5. What does the narrator walk toward when he leaves the river?
(a) The bus.
(b) A field.
(c) The mountain.
(d) A forest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do you have to do to build a house, according to the narrator's companion on the bus?

2. What country's alignment in the war troubled the Tousle-Headed Poet?

3. Why does the Ghost in the forest tell the Bright Man his father didn't come on the trip?

4. Who does the Hard-Bitten Ghost say that both sides in all the wars were run by?

5. What does the Episcopal Ghost say that happiness lies in the path of?

(see the answer key)

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