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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 find to walk upon after the waves become too burdensome?
(a) Flat rocks.
(b) Grass.
(c) Glass.
(d) Hay.

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

3. Who are the young men and women on either side of Sarah, according to MacDonald?
(a) Her sons and daughters.
(b) Her angels.
(c) Her sisters and brothers.
(d) Her lovers.

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

5. How much was the Female Ghost's husband "pottering along" on when she met him?
(a) 1,000 a year.
(b) 10,000 a year.
(c) 600 a year.
(d) 400 a year.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did they tell the Hard-Bitten Ghost when he was in the nursery?

2. Where did Sarah live in her Earthly life?

3. According to MacDonald where do literary ghosts go to visit?

4. What does the Big Man call it when he learns that the Solid Man was sent for him?

5. What kind of sins do Dick and the Ghost speak about?

(see the answer key)

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