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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 man with the bulbous nose tell the narrator is the trouble with the people of the gray town?
(a) They are generous.
(b) They are quarrelsome.
(c) They are ignorant.
(d) They are greedy.

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

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

4. What speaks in the booming voice to Ikey?
(a) The trees.
(b) The forest.
(c) The grass.
(d) The waterfall.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Bright Man, Dick, say that the gray town is if you choose to stay in Heaven?

2. What do you have to do to build a house, according to the narrator's companion on the bus?

3. What proves difficult for the narrator when wandering the new land?

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

5. Who says, "I don't see what all the talk is about. It's as good as any other park to look at, and darned uncomfortable?"

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does the narrator move two spaces in line after he joins in waiting?

5. How does the Big Man feel about his indiscretions being disclosed? What does he do?

6. What does the voice call out to Ikey with the golden apples? Where is the voice from? What does Ikey do?

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

8. 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?

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

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

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