Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 229 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire, and The Flints of Memory Lane.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did she come to this house instead?
(a) She was thrown out of Lord Falconmere's house and had nowhere else to go.
(b) The coach driver pushed her from the coach in the woods and drove away without her.
(c) She was sent a mysterious letter about her birthright, so decided to stop here on the way.
(d) She lost her way and wandered in the woods, eventually seeing the house.

2. How does the detective know that the narrator was in Afghanistan?
(a) He is wearing military grade boots that were given to soldiers in Afghanistan.
(b) He is wearing his war medal.
(c) His shoulder injury is consistent with Afghan cave-folk torture methods.
(d) The detective also served in Afghanistan and remembers seeing him there.

3. Why can the narrator not return to fairyland?
(a) He doesn't believe in fairies anymore.
(b) He was thrown out and told never to return.
(c) He broke a fairy's heart.
(d) He is too old.

4. In 'The Hidden Chamber' what does the poet tell the reader not to be afraid of?
(a) The dark.
(b) Himself.
(c) The butterfly.
(d) The ghosts in the house.

5. What bad habits does the detective warn the narrator that he has?
(a) He snores and uses the mantelpiece for target practice.
(b) He is very messy and is visited at all hours by strange people.
(c) He is very messy and likes to practice firing his gun at night.
(d) He snores and tests poisons on the dog.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 'October in the Chair,' who tells the first story?

2. Why is the young writer upset?

3. How did the narrator first meet the detective?

4. What does Runt decide at the end of the story?

5. What does June say before October's story begins?

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