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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What looms in the distance as the narrator examines his surroundings off the bus?
(a) A mountain.
(b) A dragon.
(c) A forest.
(d) A hummingbird.

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

3. What will go on spreading indefinitely?
(a) The Heavens.
(b) The Earth.
(c) The gray town.
(d) The stars.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator ask his new companion about the gray town?

2. What does the narrator come to envy as he begins exploring?

3. What does the Short Man do after his interaction with the Big Man in the line?

4. What does the Big Man call it when he learns that the Solid Man was sent for him?

5. How had the Tousle-Headed Poet killed himself?

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