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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. From what point of view is the story told?
(a) First person plural.
(b) Second person.
(c) First person singular.
(d) Third person.

2. What does the Solid Man say he is here to be for the Big Man?
(a) His nurse.
(b) His brother.
(c) His boss.
(d) His servant.

3. What does the ghost by the tree tell the narrator all of his travels were summed up to be?
(a) Advertising stunts.
(b) Frightful.
(c) Amazing.
(d) Enlightening.

4. Why does the Ghost in the forest tell the Bright Man his father didn't come on the trip?
(a) He's deaf.
(b) He's getting eccentric.
(c) He's blind.
(d) He's dead.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Napoleon doing when the two men went to see him?

2. Who asks the bus driver when they have to be back?

3. After he gets off the bus, what does the narrator try to pick?

4. What does the Solid Man who speaks to the Big Man say can't be done here?

5. Where does the narrator sit on the bus?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the setting in which the narrator finds himself in at the beginning of the book.

2. What does the narrator do when he sees the bright light? What is the reaction and appearance of the other passengers?

3. How does the Bright Person explain hell to the Fat Man?

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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