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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What time of day is it when the story begins?
(a) Evening.
(b) Morning.
(c) Dawn.
(d) Noon.

2. What does the Solid Man tell the Big Man there is none of here?
(a) Love.
(b) Indignity.
(c) Private affairs.
(d) Resentment.

3. How full is the bus when the narrator gets on?
(a) Almost full.
(b) Empty.
(c) Packed.
(d) Half full.

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

5. After exiting the bus, what does the narrator realize the other passengers are?
(a) Ghosts.
(b) Zombies.
(c) Angels.
(d) Evil.

Short Answer Questions

1. What looms in the distance as the narrator examines his surroundings off the bus?

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

3. Whom does the man on the bus say is the nearest of the "old ones"?

4. What does the face of the Bright Man who approaches the Big Ghost make the narrator want to do?

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

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