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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) MacDonald.
(b) The narrator.
(c) The Big Man.
(d) The Well-Dressed Woman.

2. After he gets off the bus, what does the narrator try to pick?
(a) A fig.
(b) An apple.
(c) A daisy.
(d) An orange.

3. What does the Tousle-Headed Poet hope to find at the end of the journey?
(a) Money.
(b) Recognition.
(c) Enlightenment.
(d) Love.

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

5. How do the passengers get onto the bus?
(a) Pushing like donkeys.
(b) Fighting like hens.
(c) Raging like bulls.
(d) Scrambling like eggs.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the passenger next to the narrator take from his pocket?

3. What does the Big Ghost call the Solid Man who approaches him?

4. What is the man wearing whom the narrator sits next to after the tussle on the bus?

5. Who comes to sit next to the narrator on the bus?

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