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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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 ignorant.
(d) They are greedy.

5. What does the Short Man think about the people in the line?
(a) They are too rich for his taste.
(b) They are disgraceful.
(c) They aren't the society he's used to.
(d) They are beautiful.

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

7. How full is the bus when the narrator gets on?
(a) Empty.
(b) Packed.
(c) Half full.
(d) Almost full.

8. From what point of view is the story told?
(a) First person singular.
(b) Second person.
(c) First person plural.
(d) Third person.

9. Why does the Ghost in the forest tell the Bright Man his father didn't come on the trip?
(a) He's getting eccentric.
(b) He's blind.
(c) He's dead.
(d) He's deaf.

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

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

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

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

14. What has become almost unbearable for the narrator at the beginning of Chapter 3?
(a) The sounds.
(b) The warmth.
(c) The height.
(d) The light.

15. How long does it take Ikey to reach the great tree as the narrator watches?
(a) A week.
(b) An hour.
(c) A moment.
(d) A day.

Short Answer Questions

1. What animals does the narrator encounter in the beginning of Chapter 5?

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

3. Where is the bus riding after some time?

4. What does the narrator find to walk upon after the waves become too burdensome?

5. Who comes to sit next to the narrator on the bus?

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