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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the bus riding after some time?
(a) Into the mountainside.
(b) Into the sky.
(c) Into the earth.
(d) Onto a long bridge.

2. How do the passengers get onto the bus?
(a) Raging like bulls.
(b) Pushing like donkeys.
(c) Fighting like hens.
(d) Scrambling like eggs.

3. What was Napoleon doing when the two men went to see him?
(a) Dancing.
(b) Pacing.
(c) Laughing.
(d) Singing.

4. What does the man with the bulbous nose tell the narrator is the trouble with the people of the gray town?
(a) They are generous.
(b) They are quarrelsome.
(c) They are greedy.
(d) They are ignorant.

5. What is remarkable about the people who approach from the mountain?
(a) Their anger.
(b) Their brightness.
(c) Their invisibility.
(d) Their fear.

Short Answer Questions

1. What proves difficult for the narrator when wandering the new land?

2. What does the Solid Man who speaks to the Big Man say can't be done here?

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

4. Where does the narrator sit on the bus?

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

(see the answer key)

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