View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator ask his new companion about the gray town?
(a) If there were many women there.
(b) How old it was.
(c) If the population was once larger.
(d) If it were once beautiful.

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

3. 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?"
(a) The Big Man.
(b) The narrator.
(c) MacDonald.
(d) The Well-Dressed Woman.

4. What does the narrator note about the other passengers when they exit the bus?
(a) They are sooty.
(b) They are transparent.
(c) They are white.
(d) They are glowing.

5. What does the Big Man do to the Short Man in the line?
(a) Throws him onto the bus.
(b) Shakes his hand.
(c) Hugs him dearly.
(d) Throws him in the gutter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the bus riding after some time?

2. What does the man on the bus say is lacking in the gray town?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 257 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample