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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. What does the face of the Bright Man who approaches the Big Ghost make the narrator want to do?
(a) Run.
(b) Sing.
(c) Dance.
(d) Cry.

12. How far does the narrator make it walking for an hour in Chapter 6?
(a) One kilometer.
(b) 200 yards.
(c) 100 yards.
(d) Three feet.

13. What lands on Ikey's head once the wind blows?
(a) Rain.
(b) Thorns.
(c) Apples.
(d) Cherries.

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

15. Who says, "I gone straight all my life. I don't say I was a religious man and I don't say I had no faults, far from it. But I done all my best all my life, see?"
(a) The Well-Dressed Woman.
(b) The Big Man.
(c) MacDonald.
(d) The narrator.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will go on spreading indefinitely?

2. How long does it take Ikey to reach the great tree as the narrator watches?

3. What does the man on the bus hope to gain by bringing something back on this trip?

4. Who says, "We simply found ourselves in contact with a certain current of ideas and plunged into it because it seemed modern and successful?"

5. What has become almost unbearable for the narrator at the beginning of Chapter 3?

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