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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the man on the bus say that you don't meet historical characters in the gray town?
(a) They are all deaf.
(b) They live millions of miles away.
(c) They are snobbish.
(d) They are all blind.

2. 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) MacDonald.
(d) Dick.

3. What does the man on the bus hope to gain by bringing something back on this trip?
(a) A following.
(b) Faith.
(c) A business.
(d) A love.

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

5. Where is the one place the narrator encounters people in the gray town?
(a) The bus stop.
(b) The bookstore.
(c) The airport.
(d) The train station.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Big Man repeatedly insist on getting?

2. What does the Female Ghost call the Solid Woman to whom she speaks of Robert?

3. What is different about the people approaching from the mountain than the passengers on the bus?

4. What does MacDonald tell the narrator to call this land?

5. What does the Episcopal Ghost say that happiness lies in the path of?

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