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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does the man on the bus say that you don't meet historical characters in the gray town?
(a) They are snobbish.
(b) They live millions of miles away.
(c) They are all blind.
(d) They are all deaf.

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

4. What country's alignment in the war troubled the Tousle-Headed Poet?
(a) Switzerland's.
(b) Russia's.
(c) Ireland's.
(d) England's.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the passengers get onto the bus?

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

3. What color does one of the ghosts mention on the bus?

4. What is the man wearing whom the narrator sits next to after the tussle on the bus?

5. Who comes to sit next to the narrator on the bus?

(see the answer key)

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