The Great Divorce Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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The Great Divorce Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 125 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color does one of the ghosts mention on the bus?
(a) Blue.
(b) Purple.
(c) Green.
(d) Yellow.

2. How long does it take Ikey to reach the great tree as the narrator watches?
(a) A moment.
(b) A week.
(c) An hour.
(d) A day.

3. 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.

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

5. What speaks in the booming voice to Ikey?
(a) The trees.
(b) The forest.
(c) The grass.
(d) The waterfall.

6. What has the narrator begun to walk upon in Chapter 3?
(a) The air.
(b) The grass.
(c) The river.
(d) The ocean.

7. What does the narrator note about the other passengers when they exit the bus?
(a) They are transparent.
(b) They are white.
(c) They are glowing.
(d) They are sooty.

8. What does the man with the bulbous nose tell the narrator is the trouble with the people of the gray town?
(a) They are greedy.
(b) They are ignorant.
(c) They are generous.
(d) They are quarrelsome.

9. What does the Big Ghost call the Solid Man who approaches him?
(a) William.
(b) Robert.
(c) Len.
(d) George.

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

11. What does the Short Man think about the people in the line?
(a) They are disgraceful.
(b) They aren't the society he's used to.
(c) They are too rich for his taste.
(d) They are beautiful.

12. What proves difficult for the narrator when wandering the new land?
(a) Flying.
(b) Sailing the river.
(c) Breathing.
(d) Walking on grass.

13. 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.

14. What does the Big Man call it when he learns that the Solid Man was sent for him?
(a) A reward.
(b) A trick.
(c) A triumph.
(d) A joy.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What sound does the narrator hear from the stillness of the open door before he exits the bus?

3. What does the ghost by the tree refer to the idea of staying?

4. What does the ghost leaning against the tree chew on?

5. Why does Dick tell the Ghost he was sent to Hell?

(see the answer keys)

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