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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where did the Tousle-Headed Poet want to go, but couldn't because of financial troubles?
(a) America.
(b) Russia.
(c) England.
(d) Sweden.

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

4. What is the man wearing whom the narrator sits next to after the tussle on the bus?
(a) A fedora.
(b) A bowler hat.
(c) A fake moustache.
(d) A sombrero.

5. What color does one of the ghosts mention on the bus?
(a) Purple.
(b) Green.
(c) Blue.
(d) Yellow.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Solid Man who speaks to the Big Man say can't be done here?

2. What does the Big Man do to the Short Man in the line?

3. How much does a man in line offer the woman to trade places?

4. What does the Big Man repeatedly insist on getting?

5. What does the Tousle-Headed Poet hope to find at the end of the journey?

(see the answer key)

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