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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the Short Man think about the people in the line?
(a) They aren't the society he's used to.
(b) They are beautiful.
(c) They are too rich for his taste.
(d) They are disgraceful.

3. Where does the narrator sit on the bus?
(a) In the front.
(b) In the middle.
(c) In the back.
(d) To the side.

4. Whom does the man on the bus say is the nearest of the "old ones"?
(a) Mahatma Ghandi.
(b) Napoleon.
(c) Julius Caesar.
(d) Cleopatra.

5. What does the Big Man do to the Short Man in the line?
(a) Hugs him dearly.
(b) Throws him in the gutter.
(c) Shakes his hand.
(d) Throws him onto the bus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Tousle-Headed Poet rail against as a cause of much misery?

2. What country's alignment in the war troubled the Tousle-Headed Poet?

3. What will go on spreading indefinitely?

4. What was Napoleon doing when the two men went to see him?

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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