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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the face of the Bright Man who approaches the Big Ghost make the narrator want to do?
(a) Run.
(b) Cry.
(c) Dance.
(d) Sing.

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

3. What does Dick tell the Episcopal Ghost they reached a point that they no longer believed in?
(a) Redemption.
(b) The truth.
(c) Justice.
(d) The Faith.

4. What does the narrator find to walk upon after the waves become too burdensome?
(a) Hay.
(b) Grass.
(c) Flat rocks.
(d) Glass.

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

6. What does the Solid Man say he is here to be for the Big Man?
(a) His boss.
(b) His servant.
(c) His nurse.
(d) His brother.

7. What sound does the narrator hear from the stillness of the open door before he exits the bus?
(a) An owl.
(b) A bee.
(c) A lark.
(d) A falcon.

8. What is remarkable about the people who approach from the mountain?
(a) Their brightness.
(b) Their anger.
(c) Their fear.
(d) Their invisibility.

9. What does the Tousle-Headed Poet rail against as a cause of much misery?
(a) Communism.
(b) Socialism.
(c) Fascism.
(d) Capitalism.

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

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

12. How full is the bus when the narrator gets on?
(a) Packed.
(b) Almost full.
(c) Half full.
(d) Empty.

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

14. 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) Dick.
(c) MacDonald.
(d) The narrator.

15. What does Dick ask the Episcopal Ghost to do?
(a) Go back to Hell.
(b) Repent and believe.
(c) Go back to Earth.
(d) Write about his journey.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says, "You'll be justifying the Inquisition in a moment?"

2. What was Napoleon doing when the two men went to see him?

3. Why does the Ghost in the forest tell the Bright Man his father didn't come on the trip?

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

5. What will go on spreading indefinitely?

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