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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does the Big Ghost call the Solid Man who approaches him?
(a) George.
(b) Len.
(c) William.
(d) Robert.

4. After he gets off the bus, what does the narrator try to pick?
(a) An orange.
(b) An apple.
(c) A daisy.
(d) A fig.

5. How do the passengers get onto the bus?
(a) Pushing like donkeys.
(b) Scrambling like eggs.
(c) Fighting like hens.
(d) Raging like bulls.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Napoleon doing when the two men went to see him?

2. What does the Short Man think about the people in the line?

3. 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?"

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

5. What looms ever closer in the beginning of Chapter 3 as the bus rises?

(see the answer key)

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