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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Pam say she'd be perfectly happy if she had?
(a) God.
(b) Michael.
(c) Love.
(d) Heaven.

2. What does the narrator walk toward when he leaves the river?
(a) The mountain.
(b) A field.
(c) The bus.
(d) A forest.

3. What does the Solid One tell the Well-Dressed Ghost to drink the cup of?
(a) Shame.
(b) Guilt.
(c) Glory.
(d) Sin.

4. What phrase does the Tragedian repeat several times?
(a) "Crying for her."
(b) "Wallowing in my own shame."
(c) "Lying dead at my feet."
(d) "Leaving me."

5. What does MacDonald say that Hell does not have the power to do over Heaven?
(a) Relinquish.
(b) Veto.
(c) Love.
(d) Abandon.

6. What does MacDonald say that all of Hell is no bigger than on Earth?
(a) A tree.
(b) A city.
(c) A pebble.
(d) A garden.

7. What does MacDonald ask the narrator if he's ever heard of?
(a) Prometheus Bound.
(b) Salvation.
(c) Death.
(d) Refrigerium.

8. What does the Solid Man say that Pam is only using as a means to get to her son?
(a) God.
(b) Hope.
(c) Joy.
(d) Anger.

9. What does the Female Ghost consider controlling Robert to have been?
(a) Her shame.
(b) Her duty.
(c) Her right.
(d) Her virtue.

10. What did Robert have a "silly idea" of doing in the old days?
(a) Making a statue.
(b) Buying a shop.
(c) Selling his paintings.
(d) Writing a book.

11. What does the Female Ghost say that Robert was when hosting parties?
(a) A storyteller.
(b) A great host.
(c) A rogue.
(d) A wet blanket.

12. MacDonald says that of the Saved, what happens to them is best described as the opposite of what?
(a) Hell.
(b) A mirage.
(c) A mirror.
(d) A journey.

13. What creature is on the shoulder of the Ghost in the forest?
(a) A gnome.
(b) A frog.
(c) A bird.
(d) A lizard.

14. What does the narrator suddenly see all around in Chapter 14?
(a) Bears.
(b) Lions.
(c) Giant forms.
(d) Angels.

15. Who is the glorious woman being praised in Chapter 12?
(a) Sarah Walters.
(b) Sarah Vangrave.
(c) Sarah Williams.
(d) Sarah Smith.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, according to MacDonald, is easier mistaken for gold than clay?

2. What does the sunrise shoot dead?

3. Where does MacDonald say that most of the Ghosts go for their "vacations"?

4. What kind of man did Robert turn into?

5. What does MacDonald say that both good and evil become if full-grown?

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