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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 'The Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch' what are the professions of Jane, Jonathon, and the narrator?
(a) An actress, a film producer, and a fantasy author.
(b) A journalist, a television presenter, and a fantasy author.
(c) A housewife, an accountant, and a fantasy author.
(d) A circus performer, a ringmaster, and a fantasy author.

2. In 'Other People' what is the worst form of torture that the demon inflicts on the man?
(a) It makes him relive everything bad that he has ever done.
(b) It puts him in an iron maiden.
(c) It forces him to watch the deaths of all the people he has ever loved.
(d) It pulls his fingernails out.

3. Why are the first two ghost stories unsatisfying?
(a) They do not involve any of the people at the club.
(b) They are told badly.
(c) They are not actually about ghosts.
(d) They are urban legends and do not make a lot of sense.

4. What does the old man tell them his father used the cages for?
(a) To keep strange animals in.
(b) To lock up the boys when they were naughty.
(c) To lock up people who trespassed on the land.
(d) To lock up the dogs he used for hunting.

5. How old is the narrator when Mr. Alice's people find him?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Eight.
(c) Seventeen.
(d) Twenty.

6. Why does the narrator not understand the jokes the other boys tell?
(a) They are speaking another language.
(b) He doesn't know the people they are talking about.
(c) The jokes are about a playhouse he has never been to.
(d) He is too young for them.

7. When the narrator kills his grandfather, what does he take from the body?
(a) His St. Christopher's necklace.
(b) His false eye.
(c) His wallet.
(d) His wedding ring.

8. What is this person traveling to present a paper on?
(a) Breakthroughs in dental hygiene.
(b) Death and the afterlife in different cultures.
(c) Haitian coffee girls.
(d) Metaphor in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

9. In New Orleans, who does the narrator and another professor meet in a bar?
(a) A zombie master, who spikes their drinks with zombie powder.
(b) The man whose identity the narrator has stolen.
(c) A strange old woman who offers to tell their fortunes.
(d) Two identical women with different colored ribbons in their hair.

10. What is the name of the club in the story 'Closing Time'?
(a) The White Hart.
(b) The Sophocles.
(c) The Diogenes.
(d) The Lion.

11. What does the narrator talk to Miss Finch about in the refreshment room?
(a) How terrible the circus is.
(b) The ethics of fish trawling.
(c) Microbes and other harmful things that can be found in Sushi.
(d) Smilodons and other prehistoric creatures.

12. Why does the narrator's passenger ask him to go back to the hotel?
(a) He forgot his wallet.
(b) He forgot his presentation notes for his paper.
(c) He accidentally brought his room key with him.
(d) He is sick of his company.

13. What does the ghost boy tell Runt his name is?
(a) Max.
(b) Dearly.
(c) He doesn't tell him his name.
(d) Donald.

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

15. What do the two of them do?
(a) Play hide and seek in the farmhouse.
(b) Tell ghost stories.
(c) Play in the river.
(d) Explore and climb a tree.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mr. Alice's main interest outside of business?

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

3. In The Faery Reel, what does the narrator say the 'brown boys' will do with his heart?

4. In 'Keepsakes and Treasures,' who admitted the narrator's mother into an insane asylum?

5. What does the old man tell Amelia she will find in the house?

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