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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does the passenger next to the narrator take from his pocket?
(a) A manuscript.
(b) A letter.
(c) A gun.
(d) An apple.

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

5. What is the man wearing whom the narrator sits next to after the tussle on the bus?
(a) A fake moustache.
(b) A sombrero.
(c) A fedora.
(d) A bowler hat.

6. After exiting the bus, what does the narrator realize the other passengers are?
(a) Zombies.
(b) Ghosts.
(c) Evil.
(d) Angels.

7. What looms in the distance as the narrator examines his surroundings off the bus?
(a) A mountain.
(b) A dragon.
(c) A forest.
(d) A hummingbird.

8. What does the narrator see in the hawthorn bush?
(a) A ghost.
(b) A lion.
(c) A dwarf.
(d) A dog.

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

10. Why does the man on the bus say that you don't meet historical characters in the gray town?
(a) They are snobbish.
(b) They live millions of miles away.
(c) They are all blind.
(d) They are all deaf.

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

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

13. What kind of sins do Dick and the Ghost speak about?
(a) Minor sins.
(b) Sins of the flesh.
(c) Cardinal sins.
(d) Intellectual sins.

14. Who does the Hard-Bitten Ghost say that both sides in all the wars were run by?
(a) The Prime Minister.
(b) The Church.
(c) The same dictator.
(d) The same Armament Firms.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Dick ask the Episcopal Ghost to do?

3. What does the Tousle-Headed Poet hope to find at the end of the journey?

4. What word does the narrator use to describe the streets in the gray town?

5. What does the narrator note about the other passengers when they exit the bus?

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