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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 Big Man ask the Solid Man in Chapter 4?
(a) If he's excited.
(b) If he's in danger.
(c) If he's ashamed.
(d) If he's miserable.

2. Where does the narrator sit on the bus?
(a) In the front.
(b) In the back.
(c) To the side.
(d) In the middle.

3. What does the Big Ghost call the Solid Man who approaches him?
(a) Robert.
(b) William.
(c) Len.
(d) George.

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

5. Where is the one place the narrator encounters people in the gray town?
(a) The bookstore.
(b) The train station.
(c) The airport.
(d) The bus stop.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does the Solid Man say he is here to be for the Big Man?

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

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