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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say is heavier than a sack of coal?
(a) His feet.
(b) His clothes.
(c) A bird.
(d) A leaf.

2. What does the narrator wonder that the whole trip of the Ghosts might be for in Chapter 8?
(a) To save them.
(b) To cherish them.
(c) To torture them.
(d) To mock them.

3. Where does MacDonald say that most of the Ghosts go for their "vacations"?
(a) Purgatory.
(b) Earth.
(c) Hell.
(d) Heaven.

4. What does MacDonald say "isn't enough" among mortals?
(a) Joy.
(b) Peace.
(c) Love.
(d) God.

5. Which ghost does the narrator encounter in the small clearing in Chapter 8?
(a) The Big Man.
(b) The Well-Dressed Woman.
(c) The Dwarf.
(d) The Tragedian.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Tousle-Headed Poet rail against as a cause of much misery?

2. Whose job is it, according to the Hard-Bitten Ghost, to find something that doesn't "bore us"?

3. What sound does the narrator hear from the stillness of the open door before he exits the bus?

4. What does the narrator ask his new companion about the gray town?

5. What had Robert not had "a spark of"?

(see the answer key)

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