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The Pilgrim’s Progress

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Analysis of Major Characters

Themes, Motifs & Symbols

Part I: Author's Apology, the First Stage, and the Second Stage

Part I: The Third Stage, the Fourth Stage

Part I: The Fifth Stage, the Sixth Stage, the Seventh Stage

Part I: The Eighth Stage, the Ninth Stage

Part I: The Tenth Stage, Conclusion of Part I

Part II: Author's Introduction, the First Stage

Part II: The Second Stage, the Third Stage

Part II: The Fourth Stage, the Fifth Stage

Part II: The Sixth Stage, the Seventh Stage

Part II: The Eighth Stage, Author's Farewell

Important Quotations Explained

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The Pilgrim’s Progress

John Bunyan

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1. The narrator learns about Christian from

(A) a book

(B) a wise man

(C) a dream

(D) an ancient poem

2. Pliable turns back to the City of Destruction after a bad experience in

(A) the Doubting Castle

(B) the Slough of Despond

(C) the Delectable Mountains

(D) the Interpreter's House

3. After seeing the cross and climbing the hill of Difficulty, Christian falls asleep and loses

(A) his certificate of entry to the Celestial City

(B) his burden

(C) his Bible

(D) his money

4. Discretion, Piety, Charity, and Prudence are

(A) fellow pilgrims

(B) mistresses of the Palace Beautiful

(C) prisoners of the Giant Despair freed by Christian

(D) servants of Madam Bubble

5. Apollyon's skin is covered with

(A) hair

(B) gold

(C) scales

(D) leather

6. The Giants Pope and Pagan present no danger to Christian because

(A) they are already dead

(B) they are chained up

(C) they are exiled

(D) they are too old and weak

7. Faithful is

(A) the Interpreter's servant

(B) the porter at the Palace Beautiful

(C) Christian's travel companion

(D) Giant Despair's son

8. Christian is imprisoned at Vanity for

(A) disrespecting the local religion

(B) shoplifting

(C) killing the king

(D) vagrancy

9. At the trial in Vanity, Faithful

(A) is acquitted

(B) escapes

(C) is executed

(D) is fined and let go

10. Demas tempts Christian with

(A) silver

(B) food

(C) women

(D) power

11. Christian is able to escape from the Doubting Castle because

(A) he kills Giant Despair

(B) he holds Despair's wife hostage

(C) Faithful storms the gates

(D) he remembers he has a key

12. In the Delectable Mountains, Christian is entertained by

(A) servant girls

(B) dancers

(C) shepherds

(D) farmers

13. Just before arriving in the Celestial City, Christian nearly dies in

(A) the mountains

(B) a river

(C) a desert

(D) a pit

14. Beulah is

(A) a servant girl

(B) a giant's wife

(C) Christian's wife

(D) a land

15. The streets of the Celestial City are paved with

(A) silver

(B) gold

(C) diamonds

(D) good intentions

16. Mercy is

(A) Christiana's daughter

(B) Christian's guide in the Delectable Mountains

(C) the mistress of the Palace Beautiful

(D) Christiana's servant and companion

17. The garden from which Christiana's sons steal fruit belongs to

(A) the devil

(B) Giant Despair

(C) the Interpreter

(D) Great-heart

18. Mr. Brisk spends time with the pilgrims in order to

(A) teach them religious doctrine

(B) guide them

(C) provide protection

(D) woo Mercy

19. The pilgrims kill Giant Good-slay just in time to save

(A) Great-heart

(B) Valiant-for-truth

(C) Mercy

(D) Feeble-mind

20. Ready-to-halt is

(A) blind

(B) deaf

(C) lame

(D) sick

21. Gaius's two daughters

(A) bar the pilgrims from their home

(B) marry Christiana's sons

(C) run off with Great-heart and Valiant-for-truth

(D) die in the Doubting Castle

22. The pilgrims Heedless and Too-bold are met when they are

(A) imprisoned

(B) asleep

(C) starving

(D) sick

23. After he is killed, Giant Despair's castle

(A) becomes a refuge for the pilgrims

(B) is destroyed

(C) is taken over by the Giant Maul

(D) is left uninhabited

24. Standfast shows admirable courage in resisting

(A) Demas

(B) Giant Despair

(C) Maul

(D) Madam Bubble

25. In the Celestial City Christiana learns that she will go to meet her Master

(A) from an angel

(B) from a letter

(C) from a book

(D) from a dream

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