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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What time of day is it when the story begins?
(a) Dawn.
(b) Morning.
(c) Noon.
(d) Evening.

2. What will go on spreading indefinitely?
(a) The Heavens.
(b) The Earth.
(c) The stars.
(d) The gray town.

3. Where did the Tousle-Headed Poet want to go, but couldn't because of financial troubles?
(a) England.
(b) America.
(c) Russia.
(d) Sweden.

4. What does the narrator ask his new companion about the gray town?
(a) How old it was.
(b) If there were many women there.
(c) If it were once beautiful.
(d) If the population was once larger.

5. What is different about the people approaching from the mountain than the passengers on the bus?
(a) They are solid.
(b) They are living.
(c) They are ghosts.
(d) They are dead.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator sit on the bus?

2. What does the face of the Bright Man who approaches the Big Ghost make the narrator want to do?

3. What does the Solid Man tell the Big Man there is none of here?

4. How many schools did the Tousle-Headed Poet attend?

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

(see the answer key)

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