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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 Ikey end up putting in his pocket after much difficulty?
(a) The smallest apple.
(b) A cherry.
(c) The largest apple.
(d) A bottle.

2. What does the Big Ghost call the Solid Man who approaches him?
(a) William.
(b) Robert.
(c) George.
(d) Len.

3. What sound does the narrator hear from the stillness of the open door before he exits the bus?
(a) A bee.
(b) An owl.
(c) A lark.
(d) A falcon.

4. What has the narrator begun to walk upon in Chapter 3?
(a) The ocean.
(b) The air.
(c) The grass.
(d) The river.

5. What does the man on the bus hope to gain by bringing something back on this trip?
(a) Faith.
(b) A business.
(c) A following.
(d) A love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What man does the passenger mention to the narrator on the bus?

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

3. What word does the narrator use to describe the streets in the gray town?

4. How many schools did the Tousle-Headed Poet attend?

5. Who says, "We simply found ourselves in contact with a certain current of ideas and plunged into it because it seemed modern and successful?"

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What does the narrator want to do at the river? How does this work out?

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

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

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

6. What happens to the Short Man in the line next to the narrator?

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

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

9. What is the ghost in the bushes doing? Who is this ghost?

10. What does the narrator try to pick up after getting off the bus?

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