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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 Solid One tell the Well-Dressed Ghost he can't completely do?
(a) Kiss her.
(b) Save her.
(c) Carry her.
(d) Heal her.

2. What does the narrator fear would crush him into the earth in Chapter 8?
(a) A bird.
(b) An insect.
(c) A kitten.
(d) A leaf.

3. What does the Well-Dressed Ghost say she would rather do than be seen?
(a) Go to Hell.
(b) Melt.
(c) Meet God.
(d) Die.

4. What does Sarah tell the Tragedian he cannot bring into her?
(a) Love.
(b) Danger.
(c) Solitude.
(d) Hell.

5. What does the Female Ghost consider controlling Robert to have been?
(a) Her virtue.
(b) Her duty.
(c) Her shame.
(d) Her right.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pam say she'd be perfectly happy if she had?

2. What does the narrator say the Dwarf shrinks to the size of?

3. What is on the table in Chapter 14?

4. What in the song sung by the followers of Sarah cannot scare her in the night?

5. What does MacDonald say that Heaven is?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator see when things suddenly change in Chapter 14? What do the figures on the table do?

2. What does the Female Ghost tell the Bright Woman were her husband's faults?

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

4. How did Pam neglect her husband and daughter in her life?

5. What does Sarah do when the dwarf disappears?

6. What are the approaching lights the narrator sees in Chapter 12? What are they doing? What is the song like that he hears?

7. Why does the Female Ghost encountered by the narrator and MacDonald say she wouldn't stay in Heaven?

8. Why is the Well-Dressed Ghost fearful of going into the mountains with the Bright People?

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

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

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