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

2. In The Faery Reel, what does the narrator say the 'brown boys' will do with his heart?
(a) Lock it up and keep it safe.
(b) Play with it until it is broken.
(c) Play a song on it and dance along.
(d) Eat it.

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

4. When he returns to the car and finds the man gone, what does the narrator find?
(a) The typescript of his paper and a book about zombies.
(b) The typescript of his paper and a hotel reservation in New Orleans.
(c) The man's clothes, with no sign of their owner.
(d) A gun and a wad of money.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why was Amelia on her way to Lord Falconmere's house?

3. What happens to the Shahinai man after eight months?

4. How does the killer know that the detective is on his track?

5. What do the boys dare the narrator to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the characteristics and personalities of the months in the story 'October in the Chair' reflect the different months of the year?

2. Why does Runt decide to go into the farmhouse at the end of October's story?

3. Why is November upset at the end of the story, and how does October cheer him up?

4. Why does the poet cast aside all his possessions and his old life in the poem 'Going Wodwo'?

5. Who tells the story about the playhouse in 'Closing Time,' and what evidence is there that this person is the storyteller?

6. Do you think the gypsy woman in 'The Flints of Memory Lane' is a ghost? Did the boy imagine it all?

7. Describe the character of Miss Finch.

8. Why do you think the double bass allows him to play beautiful music this one time?

9. Is the playhouse evil or magical, or was it just the narrator's imagination?

10. What do you think the three older boys in the ghost story are?

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