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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the bus riding after some time?
(a) Into the sky.
(b) Into the earth.
(c) Onto a long bridge.
(d) Into the mountainside.

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

3. What time of day is it when the story begins?
(a) Noon.
(b) Evening.
(c) Morning.
(d) Dawn.

4. What does the man with the bulbous nose tell the narrator is the trouble with the people of the gray town?
(a) They are quarrelsome.
(b) They are generous.
(c) They are greedy.
(d) They are ignorant.

5. What does the Short Man do after his interaction with the Big Man in the line?
(a) Laughs.
(b) Limps away.
(c) Slaps the narrator.
(d) Pushes the Big Man down.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Driver of the bus appear to be filled with?

2. What does the man on the bus say is lacking in the gray town?

3. From what point of view is the story told?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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