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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does the Tragedian accuse Sarah of doing to him?
(a) Loving him.
(b) Worrying for him.
(c) Praising him.
(d) Driving him back to Hell.

4. What kind of man did Robert turn into?
(a) A drinker.
(b) A womanizer.
(c) The kind who cares for nothing but gambling.
(d) The kind who cares for nothing but food.

5. What, according to MacDonald, can a horse not sympathize with?
(a) A rat.
(b) A man.
(c) An angel.
(d) A roach.

6. What does the sunrise shoot dead?
(a) Love.
(b) Time.
(c) Life.
(d) Death.

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

8. Whom does the narrator recall the Gods had tortured?
(a) Jesus.
(b) Cain.
(c) Atlas.
(d) Tantalus.

9. What does the narrator say the Dwarf struggles with terribly?
(a) Pain.
(b) Loneliness.
(c) Joy.
(d) Sorrow.

10. What does MacDonald say that Heaven is?
(a) A state of mind.
(b) A garden.
(c) God's lap.
(d) Reality itself.

11. What does the table represent in Chapter 14?
(a) God.
(b) Time.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Love.

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

13. Why does MacDonald explain that Sarah couldn't go to Hell?
(a) She couldn't fit.
(b) She wasn't allowed.
(c) She was too ungrateful.
(d) She didn't want to.

14. What does MacDonald tell the narrator to call this land?
(a) Heaven's Foothills.
(b) The Valley of the Shadow of Death.
(c) Heaven.
(d) The Valley of the Shadow of Life.

15. What does MacDonald say is young?
(a) Goodness.
(b) Love.
(c) God.
(d) Redeemed humanity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Female Ghost call the Solid Woman to whom she speaks of Robert?

2. What does the narrator suddenly see all around in Chapter 14?

3. What is MacDonald's first name?

4. What does the Solid One tell the Well-Dressed Ghost he can't completely do?

5. What does Sarah call the Dwarf?

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