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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Robert to the Ghost who insists on not seeing him?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her brother.
(c) Her husband.
(d) Her son.

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

3. What had Robert not had "a spark of"?
(a) Hostility.
(b) Wrath.
(c) Ambition.
(d) Honesty.

4. Who are the young men and women on either side of Sarah, according to MacDonald?
(a) Her sisters and brothers.
(b) Her sons and daughters.
(c) Her angels.
(d) Her lovers.

5. What is the name of the son whom the Female Ghost is longing to see?
(a) Andrew.
(b) John.
(c) Billy.
(d) Michael.

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

7. What does MacDonald say "isn't enough" among mortals?
(a) God.
(b) Love.
(c) Joy.
(d) Peace.

8. What was clearer here for the narrator than on Earth, according to MacDonald?
(a) The death.
(b) The love.
(c) The lens.
(d) The life.

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

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

11. What does Sarah say that the Dwarf can no longer communicate here?
(a) His glory.
(b) His dominance.
(c) His money.
(d) His wretchedness.

12. What does the Solid Person remind Pam that her son was at first?
(a) An abomination.
(b) A miracle.
(c) A brat.
(d) An accident.

13. Who is the ghost that MacDonald mentioned stayed in Heaven?
(a) Caesar.
(b) Napoeleon.
(c) Macbeth.
(d) Trajan.

14. What does the narrator fear would crush him into the earth in Chapter 8?
(a) A kitten.
(b) A leaf.
(c) An insect.
(d) A bird.

15. What does Sarah tell the Tragedian he cannot bring into her?
(a) Solitude.
(b) Danger.
(c) Hell.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator wonder that the whole trip of the Ghosts might be for in Chapter 8?

2. What does the narrator walk toward when he leaves the river?

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

4. What appeared to follow the glorious woman who was being praised in Chapter 12?

5. What did the Female Ghost keep as a way to make her husband exercise?

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