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

2. What does the Driver of the bus appear to be filled with?
(a) Horror.
(b) Light.
(c) Irritation.
(d) Anger.

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

4. What is the man wearing whom the narrator sits next to after the tussle on the bus?
(a) A fedora.
(b) A sombrero.
(c) A bowler hat.
(d) A fake moustache.

5. What looms ever closer in the beginning of Chapter 3 as the bus rises?
(a) A bird.
(b) A cliff.
(c) An ocean.
(d) A lake.

Short Answer Questions

1. What time of day is it when the story begins?

2. What has become almost unbearable for the narrator at the beginning of Chapter 3?

3. How much does a man in line offer the woman to trade places?

4. What is different about the people approaching from the mountain than the passengers on the bus?

5. What does the Tousle-Headed Poet hope to find at the end of the journey?

(see the answer key)

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