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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Goliath, and Pages from a Journal Found in a Shoebox Left in a Greyhound Bus Somewhere Between Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Louisville, Kentucky.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens the day after the narrator plays beautiful music on the instrument?
(a) He falls and breaks the instrument.
(b) He moves school, and the new school does not give lessons in that instrument.
(c) The instrument disappears.
(d) He gives up playing, as he knows he will never play like that again.

2. Who comes for the narrator right at the end of the story?
(a) Death.
(b) The woman with the red ribbon in her hair.
(c) A Haitian coffee girl.
(d) A zombie master.

3. How did the narrator first meet the detective?
(a) He met him in the army.
(b) The detective consulted him on a case.
(c) He was looking for somewhere to live.
(d) They sat next to each other at the theatre.

4. Who suddenly turns up in the young writer's house?
(a) His older brother who he thought was dead.
(b) A publisher who is interested in his book.
(c) Amelia Earnshawe.
(d) His lost wife, who left him long ago.

5. What do they plan to do with Miss Finch?
(a) Go to a play, then out dancing.
(b) Go to a circus show, then out for sushi.
(c) Go to the cinema, then bowling.
(d) Go shopping in London.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the third ghost story, what are the three older boys looking at when the narrator sees them on his way home from school?

2. After following the path away from the river, what does Runt come to?

3. According to the man, who is attacking?

4. What does the professor dream about that night?

5. Why is the young writer upset?

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