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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Big Man repeatedly insist on getting?
(a) His rights.
(b) His money.
(c) Thanks.
(d) Justice.

2. Whom does the man on the bus say is the nearest of the "old ones"?
(a) Julius Caesar.
(b) Napoleon.
(c) Mahatma Ghandi.
(d) Cleopatra.

3. How far is the bus stop from the Civic Center?
(a) Thousands of miles.
(b) Ten miles.
(c) One mile.
(d) Sixteen blocks.

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

5. What does the Bright Man, Dick, say that the gray town is if you choose to stay in Heaven?
(a) Earth.
(b) Death.
(c) Purgatory.
(d) Heaven.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. After exiting the bus, what does the narrator realize the other passengers are?

3. What does the Ghost tell Dick that his opinions in life were, in addition to being honest?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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