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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 country's alignment in the war troubled the Tousle-Headed Poet?
(a) Russia's.
(b) Ireland's.
(c) Switzerland's.
(d) England's.

2. What does the Big Man repeatedly insist on getting?
(a) His rights.
(b) Justice.
(c) Thanks.
(d) His money.

3. What was Napoleon doing when the two men went to see him?
(a) Singing.
(b) Dancing.
(c) Laughing.
(d) Pacing.

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

5. Who asks the bus driver when they have to be back?
(a) The Small Man.
(b) The narrator.
(c) The Big Man.
(d) The Woman.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What grows around the tree preventing Ikey from touching the tree?

3. What does the Big Man ask the Solid Man in Chapter 4?

4. What does the Episcopal Ghost say that happiness lies in the path of?

5. What does the narrator note about the other passengers when they exit the bus?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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