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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who asks the bus driver when they have to be back?
(a) The Big Man.
(b) The narrator.
(c) The Small Man.
(d) The Woman.

2. What does the Short Man do after his interaction with the Big Man in the line?
(a) Slaps the narrator.
(b) Laughs.
(c) Pushes the Big Man down.
(d) Limps away.

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

4. What word does the narrator use to describe the streets in the gray town?
(a) Angular.
(b) Mean.
(c) Rustic.
(d) Warm.

5. What about the space felt different after the narrator got out of the bus?
(a) It felt oppressive.
(b) It felt larger.
(c) It felt smaller.
(d) It felt dark.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How had the Tousle-Headed Poet killed himself?

3. What does the narrator say is heavier than a sack of coal?

4. Where is the one place the narrator encounters people in the gray town?

5. What looms in the distance as the narrator examines his surroundings off the bus?

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