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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who says, "We simply found ourselves in contact with a certain current of ideas and plunged into it because it seemed modern and successful?"
(a) The Big Man.
(b) The narrator.
(c) Dick.
(d) MacDonald.

2. What does the Female Ghost consider controlling Robert to have been?
(a) Her right.
(b) Her shame.
(c) Her virtue.
(d) Her duty.

3. What does the Hard-Bitten Ghost say that rain would feel like if it were to fall?
(a) Machine-gun pellets.
(b) Glass.
(c) Water.
(d) Heaven.

4. What does the Solid Man who speaks to the Big Man say can't be done here?
(a) Nothing can be bought.
(b) Nothing can be free.
(c) Nothing can be loved.
(d) Nothing can be saved.

5. 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 Well-Dressed Woman.
(c) The Big Man.
(d) The narrator.

Short Answer Questions

1. What lands on Ikey's head once the wind blows?

2. What does the man with the bulbous nose tell the narrator is the trouble with the people of the gray town?

3. What will go on spreading indefinitely?

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

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

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