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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How long does it take Ikey to reach the great tree as the narrator watches?
(a) An hour.
(b) A week.
(c) A day.
(d) A moment.

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

4. Whose job is it, according to the Hard-Bitten Ghost, to find something that doesn't "bore us"?
(a) God's.
(b) The Management's.
(c) The Devil's.
(d) Our own.

5. What does one ghost remark the money for the bus would be better spent on?
(a) House property.
(b) The homeless.
(c) Food.
(d) Heaven.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Dick tell the Ghost he was sent to Hell?

2. What does the narrator note about the other passengers when they exit the bus?

3. What is different about the people approaching from the mountain than the passengers on the bus?

4. What does the Episcopal Ghost say that happiness lies in the path of?

5. What grows around the tree preventing Ikey from touching the tree?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does the narrator sit on the bus? Who joins him? What does this character impart?

2. What does the Bright Person ask the ghost of the Fat Man about his father? What does the ghost say the Bright Person was wrong about?

3. What does the Hard-Bitten Ghost plan on doing? Why?

4. What is the narrator's experience walking on the grass? What does he envy?

5. What happens to the Short Man in the line next to the narrator?

6. What does the man in the bowler hat believe would make the people in the gray town satisfied?

7. Why does the Young Man tell the narrator he is going on the bus?

8. How does the Big Man feel about his indiscretions being disclosed? What does he do?

9. What does the place appear as when the narrator gets off the bus?

10. How long does the narrator travel on the river? How far does he go?

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