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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 ghost leaning against the tree chew on?
(a) A twig.
(b) An apple.
(c) A ghostly cheroot.
(d) A strawberry.

2. What word does the narrator use to describe the streets in the gray town?
(a) Angular.
(b) Rustic.
(c) Mean.
(d) Warm.

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

4. What animals does the narrator encounter in the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) Tigers.
(b) Lions.
(c) Giraffes.
(d) Bears.

5. What grows on the tree that the narrator encounters?
(a) Golden apples.
(b) Strawberries.
(c) Peaches.
(d) Red apples.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the Hard-Bitten Ghost say that both sides in all the wars were run by?

2. What does the Big Man do to the Short Man in the line?

3. What does the man on the bus say is lacking in the gray town?

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

5. What does the narrator ask his new companion about the gray town?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the ghost of the Fat Man say when the Bright Person asks him to go to the mountains with him?

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

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

4. What did the two chaps find when they set out to look for Napoleon?

5. 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?

6. How long does the narrator travel on the river? How far does he go?

7. How does the Hard-Bitten Ghost respond to the narrator's suggestion that they will grow more solid as they acclimate to Heaven?

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

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?

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