View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How had the Tousle-Headed Poet killed himself?
(a) He jumped under a train.
(b) He jumped off a building.
(c) He hung himself.
(d) He shot himself.

2. What grows around the tree preventing Ikey from touching the tree?
(a) Rosebushes.
(b) Lilies.
(c) Hawthorn bushes.
(d) Vines.

3. What speaks in the booming voice to Ikey?
(a) The forest.
(b) The waterfall.
(c) The trees.
(d) The grass.

4. The Ghost tells the Bright Man called Dick that his views were wrong about this in life:
(a) His mother.
(b) Literal Heaven and Hell.
(c) His father.
(d) His belief in Communism.

5. What does the narrator note about the other passengers when they exit the bus?
(a) They are sooty.
(b) They are glowing.
(c) They are transparent.
(d) They are white.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much does a man in line offer the woman to trade places?

2. Where is the bus riding after some time?

3. Whose job is it, according to the Hard-Bitten Ghost, to find something that doesn't "bore us"?

4. What does the narrator come to envy as he begins exploring?

5. What does the ghost by the tree refer to the idea of staying?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the Conscientious Objector say he threw himself in front of a train?

2. Where has the Hard-Bitten Ghost been? What does he say of these places?

3. Why does the man in the bowler hat tell the narrator the gray town seemed so desolate?

4. What does the solid person tell the Big Man about Jack?

5. How does the narrator move two spaces in line after he joins in waiting?

6. What does the Hard-Bitten Ghost invite the narrator to do? What is his reply?

7. What does the narrator see coming down from the mountains to meet the ghosts? What is their appearance?

8. Why does the narrator stop walking on the river? What does he see up the slope?

9. What does the Hard-Bitten Ghost plan on doing? Why?

10. Why does the Young Man tell the narrator he is going on the bus?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 798 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample