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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 narrator come to envy as he begins exploring?
(a) A bee.
(b) A bird.
(c) A tree.
(d) A flower.

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

3. What has become almost unbearable for the narrator at the beginning of Chapter 3?
(a) The height.
(b) The light.
(c) The sounds.
(d) The warmth.

4. Where did the Tousle-Headed Poet want to go, but couldn't because of financial troubles?
(a) America.
(b) Russia.
(c) England.
(d) Sweden.

5. What does the man on the bus hope to gain by bringing something back on this trip?
(a) A business.
(b) A following.
(c) A love.
(d) Faith.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the Short Man think about the people in the line?

3. What country's alignment in the war troubled the Tousle-Headed Poet?

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

5. What time of day is it when the story begins?

(see the answer key)

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