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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is different about the people approaching from the mountain than the passengers on the bus?
(a) They are living.
(b) They are dead.
(c) They are ghosts.
(d) They are solid.

2. What was Napoleon doing when the two men went to see him?
(a) Singing.
(b) Laughing.
(c) Dancing.
(d) Pacing.

3. 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) "It's all your fault we're going anyway."
(c) "Hurry up. We're late."
(d) "Very well then. I won't go at all."

4. What does the Solid Man who speaks to the Big Man say can't be done here?
(a) Nothing can be bought.
(b) Nothing can be loved.
(c) Nothing can be free.
(d) Nothing can be saved.

5. What country's alignment in the war troubled the Tousle-Headed Poet?
(a) Ireland's.
(b) Russia's.
(c) Switzerland's.
(d) England's.

Short Answer Questions

1. After he gets off the bus, what does the narrator try to pick?

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

3. What does the Big Man do to the Short Man in the line?

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

5. What does the narrator note about the other passengers when they exit the bus?

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