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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Ghost tell Dick that his opinions in life were, in addition to being honest?
(a) Just.
(b) Heroic.
(c) Fair.
(d) Evil.

2. What does the Tousle-Headed Poet hope to find at the end of the journey?
(a) Enlightenment.
(b) Recognition.
(c) Love.
(d) Money.

3. What does the ghost by the tree refer to the idea of staying?
(a) Propaganda.
(b) Truth.
(c) Joyful.
(d) Possible.

4. How many schools did the Tousle-Headed Poet attend?
(a) Six.
(b) Two.
(c) One.
(d) Five.

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

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

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

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

9. The Ghost tells the Bright Man called Dick that his views were wrong about this in life:
(a) Literal Heaven and Hell.
(b) His father.
(c) His belief in Communism.
(d) His mother.

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

11. Who, according to the Hard-Bitten Ghost, was Mother always in the same firm with?
(a) Jesus.
(b) Father.
(c) Her children.
(d) God.

12. What does the Short Man do after his interaction with the Big Man in the line?
(a) Pushes the Big Man down.
(b) Limps away.
(c) Laughs.
(d) Slaps the narrator.

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

14. What grows around the tree preventing Ikey from touching the tree?
(a) Hawthorn bushes.
(b) Lilies.
(c) Vines.
(d) Rosebushes.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What proves difficult for the narrator when wandering the new land?

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

4. How far is the bus stop from the Civic Center?

5. How long does it take Ikey to reach the great tree as the narrator watches?

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