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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How far is the bus stop from the Civic Center?
(a) Thousands of miles.
(b) Sixteen blocks.
(c) One mile.
(d) Ten miles.

3. What does the narrator ask his new companion about the gray town?
(a) If it were once beautiful.
(b) If there were many women there.
(c) How old it was.
(d) If the population was once larger.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What will go on spreading indefinitely?

3. How many schools did the Tousle-Headed Poet attend?

4. Whom does the man on the bus say is the nearest of the "old ones"?

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

(see the answer key)

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