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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What country's alignment in the war troubled the Tousle-Headed Poet?
(a) Switzerland's.
(b) England's.
(c) Russia's.
(d) Ireland's.

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

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

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

6. What grows on the tree that the narrator encounters?
(a) Strawberries.
(b) Red apples.
(c) Golden apples.
(d) Peaches.

7. How much does a man in line offer the woman to trade places?
(a) Three bob.
(b) Five bob.
(c) Two bob.
(d) Sixpence.

8. What does the man with the bulbous nose tell the narrator is the trouble with the people of the gray town?
(a) They are generous.
(b) They are quarrelsome.
(c) They are greedy.
(d) They are ignorant.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After exiting the bus, what does the narrator realize the other passengers are?

2. Where does the narrator sit on the bus?

3. What looms in the distance as the narrator examines his surroundings off the bus?

4. What did they tell the Hard-Bitten Ghost when he was in the nursery?

5. Whom did the Solid Man who speaks to the Big Man murder?

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