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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Napoleon doing when the two men went to see him?
(a) Singing.
(b) Laughing.
(c) Dancing.
(d) Pacing.

2. What does the narrator ask his new companion about the gray town?
(a) If the population was once larger.
(b) If it were once beautiful.
(c) If there were many women there.
(d) How old it was.

3. What does the narrator say is heavier than a sack of coal?
(a) His feet.
(b) A leaf.
(c) His clothes.
(d) A bird.

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

5. Why does Dick tell the Ghost he was sent to Hell?
(a) He beat his wife.
(b) He was greedy.
(c) He's an apostate.
(d) He was lustful.

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

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

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

9. What sound does the narrator hear from the stillness of the open door before he exits the bus?
(a) An owl.
(b) A bee.
(c) A falcon.
(d) A lark.

10. Where is the one place the narrator encounters people in the gray town?
(a) The airport.
(b) The bus stop.
(c) The train station.
(d) The bookstore.

11. What does the Solid Man tell the Big Man there is none of here?
(a) Resentment.
(b) Love.
(c) Indignity.
(d) Private affairs.

12. What grows around the tree preventing Ikey from touching the tree?
(a) Hawthorn bushes.
(b) Lilies.
(c) Vines.
(d) Rosebushes.

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

14. What does the Big Ghost call the Solid Man who approaches him?
(a) Robert.
(b) Len.
(c) William.
(d) George.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the man wearing whom the narrator sits next to after the tussle on the bus?

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

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

4. What kind of sins do Dick and the Ghost speak about?

5. What does the Big Man call it when he learns that the Solid Man was sent for him?

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