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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Tousle-Headed Poet rail against as a cause of much misery?
(a) Communism.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) Socialism.
(d) Fascism.

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

3. What does the Hard-Bitten Ghost say that rain would feel like if it were to fall?
(a) Heaven.
(b) Water.
(c) Glass.
(d) Machine-gun pellets.

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

5. What looms ever closer in the beginning of Chapter 3 as the bus rises?
(a) A cliff.
(b) An ocean.
(c) A lake.
(d) A bird.

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

7. Where does the narrator sit on the bus?
(a) In the front.
(b) To the side.
(c) In the middle.
(d) In the back.

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

9. What does the narrator come to envy as he begins exploring?
(a) A bird.
(b) A tree.
(c) A bee.
(d) A flower.

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

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

12. 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 Water Giant.
(b) The narrator.
(c) The Hard-Bitten Ghost.
(d) MacDonald.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What about the space felt different after the narrator got out of the bus?

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

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

4. What does Dick tell the Episcopal Ghost they reached a point that they no longer believed in?

5. What does the Driver of the bus appear to be filled with?

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