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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say is heavier than a sack of coal?
(a) His feet.
(b) His clothes.
(c) A bird.
(d) A leaf.

2. What grows around the tree preventing Ikey from touching the tree?
(a) Hawthorn bushes.
(b) Vines.
(c) Lilies.
(d) Rosebushes.

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

4. What does one ghost remark the money for the bus would be better spent on?
(a) Heaven.
(b) Food.
(c) House property.
(d) The homeless.

5. What word does the narrator use to describe the streets in the gray town?
(a) Mean.
(b) Angular.
(c) Rustic.
(d) Warm.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?"

3. What proves difficult for the narrator when wandering the new land?

4. What has become almost unbearable for the narrator at the beginning of Chapter 3?

5. What does the narrator note about the other passengers when they exit the bus?

(see the answer key)

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