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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do you have to do to build a house, according to the narrator's companion on the bus?
(a) Think it.
(b) Pay for builders.
(c) Rent your soul.
(d) Buy it.

2. What does the woman in the line say to the man she's with?
(a) "I told you I didn't want to come here."
(b) "Hurry up. We're late."
(c) "It's all your fault we're going anyway."
(d) "Very well then. I won't go at all."

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

4. Whom did the Solid Man who speaks to the Big Man murder?
(a) Jack.
(b) Randolph.
(c) Evan.
(d) Will.

5. What does the man on the bus say is lacking in the gray town?
(a) Love.
(b) Needs.
(c) Worry.
(d) Hate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Big Man ask the Solid Man in Chapter 4?

2. What does the passenger next to the narrator take from his pocket?

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

4. What sound does the narrator hear from the stillness of the open door before he exits the bus?

5. How full is the bus when the narrator gets on?

(see the answer key)

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