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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the Solid Man who meets the Female Ghost looking for her son?
(a) Johnathan.
(b) Reginald.
(c) Andrew.
(d) Richard.

2. 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.

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

4. What does MacDonald point out as no bigger than the portal which brought the bus to Heaven?
(a) A bee.
(b) A roach.
(c) A flea.
(d) A crack.

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

6. What does the Well-Dressed Ghost in the forest tell the Solid One following her?
(a) To help her sleep.
(b) To leave her alone.
(c) To take her to the mountain.
(d) To take her to her husband.

7. Who is an example of what natural affection turns to in the end if it will not be converted?
(a) The Kennedys.
(b) The Andersons.
(c) The Browns.
(d) The Guthries.

8. How much was the Female Ghost's husband "pottering along" on when she met him?
(a) 400 a year.
(b) 600 a year.
(c) 1,000 a year.
(d) 10,000 a year.

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

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

11. Where did Sarah live in her Earthly life?
(a) Golders Green.
(b) London.
(c) Ireland.
(d) Pittsburgh.

12. According to MacDonald there are some who are so occupied with the spreading of Christianity they take no regard for ______ .
(a) Faith.
(b) Love.
(c) Hope.
(d) Christ.

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

14. What are the small creatures on the table representative of in Chapter 14?
(a) The Great Figures.
(b) God.
(c) The Devil.
(d) Anger and Joy.

15. What does the Female Ghost say she did for Robert?
(a) Sacrificed her whole life.
(b) Worshipped him.
(c) Killed herself.
(d) Killed him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the table represent in Chapter 14?

2. What does the Solid Man tell Pam you can't fully love until you love God?

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

4. According to MacDonald where do literary ghosts go to visit?

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

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