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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the man on the bus say is lacking in the gray town?
(a) Hate.
(b) Worry.
(c) Needs.
(d) Love.

3. How had the Tousle-Headed Poet killed himself?
(a) He jumped under a train.
(b) He jumped off a building.
(c) He hung himself.
(d) He shot himself.

4. What color does one of the ghosts mention on the bus?
(a) Green.
(b) Purple.
(c) Blue.
(d) Yellow.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator sit on the bus?

2. What does the Short Man do after his interaction with the Big Man in the line?

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?"

4. What about the space felt different after the narrator got out of the bus?

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

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