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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who comes to sit next to the narrator on the bus?
(a) An old woman.
(b) A tousle-haired youth.
(c) A young woman.
(d) An old man.

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

5. Where does the narrator sit on the bus?
(a) In the middle.
(b) To the side.
(c) In the back.
(d) In the front.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the man with the bulbous nose tell the narrator is the trouble with the people of the gray town?

2. What does the man on the bus hope to gain by bringing something back on this trip?

3. Why does the man on the bus say that you don't meet historical characters in the gray town?

4. Where is the bus riding after some time?

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

(see the answer key)

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