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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was clearer here for the narrator than on Earth, according to MacDonald?
(a) The love.
(b) The life.
(c) The lens.
(d) The death.

2. According to MacDonald where do literary ghosts go to visit?
(a) Graves.
(b) Libraries.
(c) Sanitariums.
(d) Museums.

3. What does MacDonald say "isn't enough" among mortals?
(a) Joy.
(b) Love.
(c) God.
(d) Peace.

4. What does the sunrise shoot dead?
(a) Love.
(b) Time.
(c) Life.
(d) Death.

5. What did the Female Ghost spend hours doing to brighten up their home?
(a) Arranging flowers.
(b) Painting.
(c) Sewing.
(d) Embroidering.

6. What does the Solid Man tell Pam she can't do to anyone in this country?
(a) Pity them.
(b) Worship them.
(c) Hurt them.
(d) Kill them.

7. What happens to the Tragedian?
(a) He disappears.
(b) He explodes.
(c) He melts.
(d) He lights on fire.

8. What is the name of the Solid Man who meets the Female Ghost looking for her son?
(a) Reginald.
(b) Johnathan.
(c) Andrew.
(d) Richard.

9. What does Sarah say that pity can be used as?
(a) Reason.
(b) Rage.
(c) Volition.
(d) Blackmail.

10. Whom does the narrator realize is leading of the two ghosts who meet Sarah?
(a) The Dwarf.
(b) The Tragedian.
(c) The Fat Man.
(d) The Comic.

11. Who is the ghost that MacDonald mentioned stayed in Heaven?
(a) Trajan.
(b) Macbeth.
(c) Caesar.
(d) Napoeleon.

12. MacDonald says "The action of pity will live forever, but the _______ of pity will not."
(a) Fear.
(b) Passion.
(c) Inebriation.
(d) Joy.

13. What does MacDonald tell the narrator he's been doing all this time in Chapter 14?
(a) Dying.
(b) Crying.
(c) Dreaming.
(d) Living.

14. Who are the young men and women on either side of Sarah, according to MacDonald?
(a) Her sons and daughters.
(b) Her sisters and brothers.
(c) Her angels.
(d) Her lovers.

15. What does the narrator say the Dwarf struggles with terribly?
(a) Sorrow.
(b) Pain.
(c) Joy.
(d) Loneliness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the table made of in Chapter 14?

2. What does Sarah tell the Tragedian he cannot bring into her?

3. What does MacDonald say is the gift that men most resemble the Creator?

4. What does the Solid One tell the Well-Dressed Ghost to drink the cup of?

5. What does MacDonald ask the narrator if he's ever heard of?

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