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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Episcopal Ghost say that happiness lies in the path of?
(a) God.
(b) Duty.
(c) Redemption.
(d) Justice.

2. How do the passengers get onto the bus?
(a) Fighting like hens.
(b) Scrambling like eggs.
(c) Pushing like donkeys.
(d) Raging like bulls.

3. What does the ghost by the tree tell the narrator all of his travels were summed up to be?
(a) Advertising stunts.
(b) Enlightening.
(c) Frightful.
(d) Amazing.

4. What does the narrator say is heavier than a sack of coal?
(a) His feet.
(b) His clothes.
(c) A bird.
(d) A leaf.

5. Where is the one place the narrator encounters people in the gray town?
(a) The airport.
(b) The bookstore.
(c) The train station.
(d) The bus stop.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Short Man do after his interaction with the Big Man in the line?

2. What animals does the narrator encounter in the beginning of Chapter 5?

3. What does the Short Man think about the people in the line?

4. Where did the Tousle-Headed Poet want to go, but couldn't because of financial troubles?

5. What does the Solid Man say he is here to be for the Big Man?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the voice call out to Ikey with the golden apples? Where is the voice from? What does Ikey do?

2. What does the narrator do when he sees the bright light? What is the reaction and appearance of the other passengers?

3. How does the Big Man reply when the solid person offers him help up the mountain? What does the solid person try to convince him of?

4. What is the narrator's experience walking on the grass? What does he envy?

5. Where does the narrator sit on the bus? Who joins him? What does this character impart?

6. What does the man in the bowler hat believe would make the people in the gray town satisfied?

7. What is remarkable about the other passengers once they are off the bus?

8. What has the Conscientious Objector encountered since his death? Why is he on the bus?

9. How does the Bright Person explain hell to the Fat Man?

10. What does the Bright Person ask the ghost of the Fat Man about his father? What does the ghost say the Bright Person was wrong about?

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