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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the narrator sit on the bus?
(a) In the middle.
(b) To the side.
(c) In the front.
(d) In the back.

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

3. What proves difficult for the narrator when wandering the new land?
(a) Breathing.
(b) Walking on grass.
(c) Flying.
(d) Sailing the river.

4. What does the man with the bulbous nose tell the narrator is the trouble with the people of the gray town?
(a) They are ignorant.
(b) They are generous.
(c) They are greedy.
(d) They are quarrelsome.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who asks the bus driver when they have to be back?

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

3. What does the Big Man repeatedly insist on getting?

4. How many schools did the Tousle-Headed Poet attend?

5. What does the Tousle-Headed Poet hope to find at the end of the journey?

(see the answer key)

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