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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 does the man on the bus say is lacking in the gray town?
(a) Love.
(b) Worry.
(c) Needs.
(d) Hate.

2. What does the face of the Bright Man who approaches the Big Ghost make the narrator want to do?
(a) Sing.
(b) Cry.
(c) Dance.
(d) Run.

3. What country's alignment in the war troubled the Tousle-Headed Poet?
(a) Russia's.
(b) Ireland's.
(c) England's.
(d) Switzerland's.

4. What does the ghost by the tree say that Hell is?
(a) A joy.
(b) Endless.
(c) Enchanting.
(d) A flop.

5. What does the Big Ghost call the Solid Man who approaches him?
(a) Len.
(b) George.
(c) William.
(d) Robert.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator sit on the bus?

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

3. What does Dick tell the Episcopal Ghost they reached a point that they no longer believed in?

4. What does the passenger next to the narrator take from his pocket?

5. What does the Big Man repeatedly insist on getting?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does the Conscientious Objector say he threw himself in front of a train?

3. What does the narrator try to pick up after getting off the bus?

4. What does the Hard-Bitten Ghost invite the narrator to do? What is his reply?

5. What is remarkable about the other passengers once they are off the bus?

6. How does the Bright Person explain hell to the Fat Man?

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

8. Where has the Hard-Bitten Ghost been? What does he say of these places?

9. Why does the narrator stop walking on the river? What does he see up the slope?

10. What did the two chaps find when they set out to look for Napoleon?

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