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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 speaks in the booming voice to Ikey?
(a) The forest.
(b) The grass.
(c) The waterfall.
(d) The trees.
2. Where is the one place the narrator encounters people in the gray town?
(a) The bus stop.
(b) The train station.
(c) The airport.
(d) The bookstore.
3. What does the ghost by the tree say that Hell is?
(a) A flop.
(b) Enchanting.
(c) Endless.
(d) A joy.
4. What is different about the people approaching from the mountain than the passengers on the bus?
(a) They are dead.
(b) They are living.
(c) They are solid.
(d) They are ghosts.
5. From what point of view is the story told?
(a) Third person.
(b) Second person.
(c) First person singular.
(d) First person plural.
Short Answer Questions
1. How long does it take Ikey to reach the great tree as the narrator watches?
2. What looms in the distance as the narrator examines his surroundings off the bus?
3. What does the man on the bus say is lacking in the gray town?
4. After exiting the bus, what does the narrator realize the other passengers are?
5. Who says, "You'll be justifying the Inquisition in a moment?"
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the narrator do when he sees the bright light? What is the reaction and appearance of the other passengers?
2. How long does the narrator travel on the river? How far does he go?
3. What does the Hard-Bitten Ghost plan on doing? Why?
4. Where does the narrator sit on the bus? Who joins him? What does this character impart?
5. What did the two chaps find when they set out to look for Napoleon?
6. What does the voice call out to Ikey with the golden apples? Where is the voice from? What does Ikey do?
7. What has the Conscientious Objector encountered since his death? Why is he on the bus?
8. What is remarkable about the other passengers once they are off the bus?
9. What does the narrator see coming down from the mountains to meet the ghosts? What is their appearance?
10. How does the Hard-Bitten Ghost respond to the narrator's suggestion that they will grow more solid as they acclimate to Heaven?
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