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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 narrator say the Dwarf shrinks to the size of?
(a) A dog.
(b) A flea.
(c) A bird.
(d) A kitten.

2. What does the narrator suddenly see all around in Chapter 14?
(a) Angels.
(b) Bears.
(c) Giant forms.
(d) Lions.

3. What does Pam say she'd be perfectly happy if she had?
(a) Michael.
(b) God.
(c) Heaven.
(d) Love.

4. What does the narrator walk toward when he leaves the river?
(a) A forest.
(b) A field.
(c) The mountain.
(d) The bus.

5. Where did Sarah live in her Earthly life?
(a) London.
(b) Golders Green.
(c) Pittsburgh.
(d) Ireland.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does MacDonald say that Heaven is?

2. What does the Solid Man say that Pam is only using as a means to get to her son?

3. Where does MacDonald say that most of the Ghosts go for their "vacations"?

4. Whom does the narrator realize is leading of the two ghosts who meet Sarah?

5. What does the narrator fear would crush him into the earth in Chapter 8?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the Female Ghost say about the flowers she put on Robert's desk?

2. What does Sarah do when the dwarf disappears?

3. How does MacDonald explain Heaven, Hell and Purgatory to the narrator?

4. What is MacDonald's reply when the narrator asks him if all he has seen is false?

5. What happens when the ghost with the lizard allows the Bright Person to kill the lizard?

6. How does MacDonald explain the size of Hell to the narrator?

7. Who is the Bright Person who approaches the narrator? What is his appearance?

8. Who does MacDonald say is the only Bright Person who can get into Hell? Why?

9. What happens to the narrator when the morning arrives?

10. What do the two ghosts do when Sarah asks for forgiveness?

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