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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 there were many women there.
(b) If it were once beautiful.
(c) How old it was.
(d) If the population was once larger.

2. What man does the passenger mention to the narrator on the bus?
(a) Christopher Lloyd.
(b) Cyril Blellow.
(c) Abraham Lincoln.
(d) C.S. Lewis.

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

4. Why does the man on the bus say that you don't meet historical characters in the gray town?
(a) They are snobbish.
(b) They are all blind.
(c) They are all deaf.
(d) They live millions of miles away.

5. What does the Tousle-Headed Poet hope to find at the end of the journey?
(a) Money.
(b) Recognition.
(c) Love.
(d) Enlightenment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the man on the bus say is lacking in the gray town?

2. How far is the bus stop from the Civic Center?

3. What does the Big Man do to the Short Man in the line?

4. From what point of view is the story told?

5. What does the Driver of the bus appear to be filled with?

(see the answer key)

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