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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 leaning against the tree chew on?
(a) A twig.
(b) A ghostly cheroot.
(c) An apple.
(d) A strawberry.

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

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

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

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

6. Whom does the man on the bus say is the nearest of the "old ones"?
(a) Napoleon.
(b) Mahatma Ghandi.
(c) Julius Caesar.
(d) Cleopatra.

7. Who says, "I don't see what all the talk is about. It's as good as any other park to look at, and darned uncomfortable?"
(a) The narrator.
(b) MacDonald.
(c) The Hard-Bitten Ghost.
(d) The Water Giant.

8. Who asks the bus driver when they have to be back?
(a) The Big Man.
(b) The Woman.
(c) The narrator.
(d) The Small Man.

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

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

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

12. What does the Solid Man who speaks to the Big Man say can't be done here?
(a) Nothing can be free.
(b) Nothing can be saved.
(c) Nothing can be loved.
(d) Nothing can be bought.

13. Where did the Tousle-Headed Poet want to go, but couldn't because of financial troubles?
(a) Russia.
(b) England.
(c) America.
(d) Sweden.

14. Whom did the Solid Man who speaks to the Big Man murder?
(a) Jack.
(b) Will.
(c) Evan.
(d) Randolph.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator see in the hawthorn bush?

2. What does the passenger next to the narrator take from his pocket?

3. What lands on Ikey's head once the wind blows?

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

5. Where does the narrator sit on the bus?

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