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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) MacDonald.
(b) The narrator.
(c) The Big Man.
(d) Dick.

2. How do the passengers get onto the bus?
(a) Scrambling like eggs.
(b) Fighting like hens.
(c) Raging like bulls.
(d) Pushing like donkeys.

3. Where is the bus riding after some time?
(a) Into the earth.
(b) Onto a long bridge.
(c) Into the sky.
(d) Into the mountainside.

4. What animals does the narrator encounter in the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) Bears.
(b) Tigers.
(c) Giraffes.
(d) Lions.

5. What does the Driver of the bus appear to be filled with?
(a) Horror.
(b) Anger.
(c) Light.
(d) Irritation.

6. Where does the narrator sit on the bus?
(a) In the middle.
(b) In the back.
(c) To the side.
(d) In the front.

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

8. What did they tell the Hard-Bitten Ghost when he was in the nursery?
(a) If he was good, he'd be happy.
(b) If he was good, he'd get candy.
(c) If he could count to three, he'd be happy.
(d) If life were easy, it wouldn't be worth it.

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

10. What word does the narrator use to describe the streets in the gray town?
(a) Mean.
(b) Angular.
(c) Warm.
(d) Rustic.

11. What does the Big Man repeatedly insist on getting?
(a) Justice.
(b) His rights.
(c) His money.
(d) Thanks.

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

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

14. What does the Episcopal Ghost say that happiness lies in the path of?
(a) Redemption.
(b) Duty.
(c) God.
(d) Justice.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Short Man do after his interaction with the Big Man in the line?

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

3. What does the man on the bus hope to gain by bringing something back on this trip?

4. Whom does the man on the bus say is the nearest of the "old ones"?

5. What grows on the tree that the narrator encounters?

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