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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 Tousle-Headed Poet hope to find at the end of the journey?
(a) Love.
(b) Money.
(c) Enlightenment.
(d) Recognition.

2. How far is the bus stop from the Civic Center?
(a) Thousands of miles.
(b) Ten miles.
(c) Sixteen blocks.
(d) One mile.

3. What man does the passenger mention to the narrator on the bus?
(a) Christopher Lloyd.
(b) C.S. Lewis.
(c) Abraham Lincoln.
(d) Cyril Blellow.

4. Where is the one place the narrator encounters people in the gray town?
(a) The bookstore.
(b) The train station.
(c) The airport.
(d) The bus stop.

5. What time of day is it when the story begins?
(a) Noon.
(b) Evening.
(c) Dawn.
(d) Morning.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who comes to sit next to the narrator on the bus?

2. What country's alignment in the war troubled the Tousle-Headed Poet?

3. What does one ghost remark the money for the bus would be better spent on?

4. Who says, "I gone straight all my life. I don't say I was a religious man and I don't say I had no faults, far from it. But I done all my best all my life, see?"

5. After exiting the bus, what does the narrator realize the other passengers are?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

10. What does the place appear as when the narrator gets off the bus?

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