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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator note about the other passengers when they exit the bus?
(a) They are white.
(b) They are glowing.
(c) They are transparent.
(d) They are sooty.

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

3. What man does the passenger mention to the narrator on the bus?
(a) Christopher Lloyd.
(b) Cyril Blellow.
(c) Abraham Lincoln.
(d) C.S. Lewis.

4. What does the man on the bus hope to gain by bringing something back on this trip?
(a) A love.
(b) Faith.
(c) A business.
(d) A following.

5. What about the space felt different after the narrator got out of the bus?
(a) It felt larger.
(b) It felt oppressive.
(c) It felt smaller.
(d) It felt dark.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do the passengers get onto the bus?

3. What do you have to do to build a house, according to the narrator's companion on the bus?

4. Who says, "I gone straight all my life. I don't say I was a religious man and I don't say I had no faults, far from it. But I done all my best all my life, see?"

5. What does the woman in the line say to the man she's with?

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