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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who says, "Can't you understand anything? Do you really suppose I'm going out there among all those people, like this?"
(a) MacDonald.
(b) The Well-Dressed Ghost.
(c) The Dwarf.
(d) The Tragedian.

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

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

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

6. What does MacDonald say that both good and evil become if full-grown?
(a) Insatiable.
(b) Immutable.
(c) Retrospective.
(d) Eternal.

7. What happens to the Tragedian?
(a) He explodes.
(b) He lights on fire.
(c) He disappears.
(d) He melts.

8. What did the Hard-Bitten Ghost leave the narrator with?
(a) Joy.
(b) Doubt.
(c) Love.
(d) Irritation.

9. What in the song sung by the followers of Sarah cannot scare her in the night?
(a) The ghosts.
(b) The bogies.
(c) The angels.
(d) The demons.

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

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

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

13. Whom does the narrator realize is leading of the two ghosts who meet Sarah?
(a) The Fat Man.
(b) The Tragedian.
(c) The Dwarf.
(d) The Comic.

14. What, according to MacDonald, is easier mistaken for gold than clay?
(a) Silver.
(b) Jetnam.
(c) Bronze.
(d) Brass.

15. What book had the narrator bought when he was 16?
(a) Fantasies.
(b) The Bible.
(c) Inferno.
(d) The World Forgotten.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the table represent in Chapter 14?

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

3. What is notable about the Dwarf after the Lady kisses him?

4. What does the Solid Person remind Pam that her son was at first?

5. What is MacDonald's first name?

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