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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Christian say about Talkative?
(a) Many people talk about religious principles without practicing them.
(b) Talkative is mentally ill and should be pitied because he is a compulsive talker.
(c) Talkative should not talk so much.
(d) Talkative’s conversations about God are interesting.

2. Why does Bunyan use the allegorical approach in writing this book?
(a) In the hopes people will not be offended by the work.
(b) In order to appear to be very religious.
(c) So he can make up a lot of fake creatures.
(d) He is not a fiction writer.

3. With what is Passion concerned?
(a) Painting great art.
(b) The wealth of the world.
(c) Having a job he likes.
(d) Getting married.

4. What does Christian’s family say when he tells them about his revelation?
(a) They are very enthusiastic.
(b) They say he is crazy.
(c) They are dubious.
(d) They are impressed.

5. Why does Christian think they should go into the By Path Meadow?
(a) He thinks the path might be easier to negotiate.
(b) He thinks it is the way Evangelist told him to go.
(c) His wife had talked about it.
(d) He thinks the flowers are pretty.

6. What is at the spot on the mountain where Christian loses his burden of sin?
(a) A small chapel.
(b) A cross and a tomb.
(c) The angel Michael.
(d) A baptismal fount.

7. How do Formalist and Hypocrisy get on the mountain path?
(a) Through a hole in the fence.
(b) Through the Wicket Gate.
(c) They came down the river.
(d) By climbing a different hill.

8. Whom does Christian meet after leaving the area of the Devil’s Castle?
(a) Hopeful.
(b) Know Much.
(c) Interpreter.
(d) Evangelist.

9. What does the dust in the room represent?
(a) A man’s soul.
(b) How to not clean a house.
(c) A dead human body.
(d) The elements of which a human is made.

10. What does Hopeful say about his life to Christian?
(a) He had led a very sinful life.
(b) He was no worse that the average person.
(c) He was raised in a strict home.
(d) He had always been optimistic.

11. Which way does the path go that the black man leads Christian and Hopeful down?
(a) Away from Celestial City.
(b) Toward the North Pole.
(c) Toward Celestial City.
(d) Away from. the City of Destruction.

12. What do the people of Vanity want to do with Christian and Faithful?
(a) Invite them to a dance.
(b) Steal their clothing and possessions.
(c) Get them to sing on stage.
(d) Put them up in the town’s hotel.

13. What does the person who protects Christian from the Devil’s arrows tell Christian to do next?
(a) Spend the night in the Wayfarer Inn.
(b) To return to his home and get his wife.
(c) To go up the path on the mountain.
(d) To ignore Evangelist.

14. What statue do Christian and Hopeful see?
(a) One of a lion and a lamb.
(b) One of St. Peter.
(c) A statue of the present Pope.
(d) One of Lot’s Wife.

15. What do the townspeople of Vanity first do to Christian and Faithful?
(a) Play a practical joke on them.
(b) Throw horse droppings on them.
(c) Kill Faithful as soon as they walk into the town.
(d) Beat them and put them in prison.

Short Answer Questions

1. To where does the door the shepherds show Christian lead?

2. How might Christian and Hopeful clear up their situation regarding what path to choose?

3. What does Christian tell By Ends and his group?

4. Why is the Valley of the Shadow of Death scary for Christian?

5. What is located at the Lucre Hill?

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