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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did the ghost by the tree go when he was out East?
(a) Israel.
(b) Peking.
(c) Baghdad.
(d) Constantinople.

2. Why does the Ghost in the forest tell the Bright Man his father didn't come on the trip?
(a) He's dead.
(b) He's getting eccentric.
(c) He's blind.
(d) He's deaf.

3. How had the Tousle-Headed Poet killed himself?
(a) He shot himself.
(b) He jumped off a building.
(c) He jumped under a train.
(d) He hung himself.

4. What is different about the people approaching from the mountain than the passengers on the bus?
(a) They are dead.
(b) They are ghosts.
(c) They are living.
(d) They are solid.

5. What presence does the narrator feel he can't bear in Chapter 7?
(a) The Ghosts.
(b) The Water Giant.
(c) The Mountain Giant.
(d) The Great Tree.

6. Whose job is it, according to the Hard-Bitten Ghost, to find something that doesn't "bore us"?
(a) The Management's.
(b) God's.
(c) Our own.
(d) The Devil's.

7. Why does Dick tell the Ghost he was sent to Hell?
(a) He's an apostate.
(b) He beat his wife.
(c) He was greedy.
(d) He was lustful.

8. What country's alignment in the war troubled the Tousle-Headed Poet?
(a) England's.
(b) Ireland's.
(c) Russia's.
(d) Switzerland's.

9. How far does the narrator make it walking for an hour in Chapter 6?
(a) 200 yards.
(b) 100 yards.
(c) Three feet.
(d) One kilometer.

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

11. What kind of sins do Dick and the Ghost speak about?
(a) Cardinal sins.
(b) Minor sins.
(c) Intellectual sins.
(d) Sins of the flesh.

12. What lands on Ikey's head once the wind blows?
(a) Cherries.
(b) Apples.
(c) Thorns.
(d) Rain.

13. What does the ghost by the tree tell the narrator all of his travels were summed up to be?
(a) Amazing.
(b) Enlightening.
(c) Advertising stunts.
(d) Frightful.

14. What do you have to do to build a house, according to the narrator's companion on the bus?
(a) Think it.
(b) Rent your soul.
(c) Buy it.
(d) Pay for builders.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. From what point of view is the story told?

3. What speaks in the booming voice to Ikey?

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

5. Why does the man on the bus say that you don't meet historical characters in the gray town?

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