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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 Solid One tell the Well-Dressed Ghost to drink the cup of?
(a) Sin.
(b) Guilt.
(c) Glory.
(d) Shame.

2. What does the Hard-Bitten Ghost say that rain would feel like if it were to fall?
(a) Water.
(b) Glass.
(c) Machine-gun pellets.
(d) Heaven.

3. The Ghost tells the Bright Man called Dick that his views were wrong about this in life:
(a) His belief in Communism.
(b) His mother.
(c) His father.
(d) Literal Heaven and Hell.

4. Whose job is it, according to the Hard-Bitten Ghost, to find something that doesn't "bore us"?
(a) Our own.
(b) The Devil's.
(c) God's.
(d) The Management's.

5. How had the Tousle-Headed Poet killed himself?
(a) He jumped off a building.
(b) He hung himself.
(c) He shot himself.
(d) He jumped under a train.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the man on the bus say that you don't meet historical characters in the gray town?

2. What does the narrator walk toward when he leaves the river?

3. What presence does the narrator feel he can't bear in Chapter 7?

4. What does Dick ask the Episcopal Ghost to do?

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

(see the answer key)

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