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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What animals does the narrator encounter in the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) Giraffes.
(b) Bears.
(c) Lions.
(d) Tigers.

2. Why does the man on the bus say that you don't meet historical characters in the gray town?
(a) They live millions of miles away.
(b) They are snobbish.
(c) They are all deaf.
(d) They are all blind.

3. What do you have to do to build a house, according to the narrator's companion on the bus?
(a) Rent your soul.
(b) Think it.
(c) Buy it.
(d) Pay for builders.

4. How far is the bus stop from the Civic Center?
(a) One mile.
(b) Ten miles.
(c) Thousands of miles.
(d) Sixteen blocks.

5. What does the man with the bulbous nose tell the narrator is the trouble with the people of the gray town?
(a) They are ignorant.
(b) They are greedy.
(c) They are generous.
(d) They are quarrelsome.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the ghost leaning against the tree chew on?

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

3. What does the Bright Man, Dick, say that the gray town is if you choose to stay in Heaven?

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

5. Who says, "I gone straight all my life. I don't say I was a religious man and I don't say I had no faults, far from it. But I done all my best all my life, see?"

(see the answer key)

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