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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 does the narrator find in a blueberry bush?
(a) A red thread.
(b) A diary.
(c) Another postcard.
(d) A necklace.

2. In the poem 'Instructions' what is it important to always trust?
(a) That the path will lead you home.
(b) The youngest princess.
(c) Your heart and your story.
(d) Dragons.

3. Why is diagnosing Disease Maker's Croup difficult?
(a) The symptoms can be very different from person to person.
(b) It tends to affect those who are least questioned and most trusted.
(c) It will immediately infect anyone who comes within ten feet of the patient.
(d) The patient becomes violent and does not like being diagnosed.

4. Whom does Disease Maker's Croup affect?
(a) People with weakened immune systems.
(b) People who want time off work.
(c) Hypochondriacs.
(d) People who catalogue diseases.

5. In 'Harlequin Valentine' what does Harlequin pin on Missy's front door?
(a) A charcoal drawing of Missy.
(b) His heart.
(c) A red and black striped ribbon.
(d) A card.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the author the second time reality seems to fade?

2. Now that Missy can see Harlequin, what does she tell him to do?

3. What story is the father reading to his child in 'Locks'?

4. What does Missy do next?

5. With what does he baptize the model?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of beings are Wain's Wain and the second girl whom Enn talks to?

2. What different kinds of vampires are there in 'Fifteen Painted Cards from a Vampire Tarot'?

3. Based on the instructions given in the poem 'Instructions,' what kind of morals are needed to survive fairyland?

4. Do you think Miss Corvier is supernatural or a normal but disturbed human?

5. Why does Becky break up with the narrator?

6. Why does Triolet say that she is a poem?

7. What do you think happened to Becky at the end of the story?

8. What makes it clear that the author of 'Disease Maker's Croup' is suffering from the disease himself?

9. In what ways is 'In The End' a reversal of the creation story in Genesis?

10. Based on this story, how do you think the author feels about the problem of Susan?

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