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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Well-Dressed Ghost say she would rather do than be seen?
(a) Meet God.
(b) Melt.
(c) Go to Hell.
(d) Die.

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does MacDonald tell the narrator he's been doing all this time in Chapter 14?
(a) Dying.
(b) Dreaming.
(c) Crying.
(d) Living.

8. What was Pam's husband's name?
(a) Roy.
(b) James.
(c) Dick.
(d) Andrew.

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

10. What does the Solid One tell the Well-Dressed Ghost he can't completely do?
(a) Kiss her.
(b) Carry her.
(c) Save her.
(d) Heal her.

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

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

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

14. Who wrote, "Tis better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven?"
(a) Milton.
(b) MacDonald.
(c) Satan.
(d) C. S. Lewis.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sarah call the Dwarf?

2. What does Sarah say that pity can be used as?

3. Whom does the narrator realize is leading of the two ghosts who meet Sarah?

4. What does the Solid Man say that Pam is only using as a means to get to her son?

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

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