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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A School Story and The Rose Garden.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Number 13," what is strange about all the hotels in Denmark?
(a) There are no doors.
(b) There is no room 13.
(c) The elevators run backwards.
(d) There are no keys.

2. Who does Mr. Williams invite to look at the painting?
(a) Bisquit.
(b) Dennistoun.
(c) Charley.
(d) Nisbit.

3. What sport does Parkins play with his friend, in the story "Oh Whistle, and I'll come to You, My Lad"?
(a) Checkers.
(b) Cricket.
(c) Chess.
(d) Golf.

4. Where are the two men sitting and chatting in "A School Story"?
(a) A smoking room.
(b) A school house.
(c) A barber shop.
(d) A park.

5. Where is Parkins a professor?
(a) George Town.
(b) St. James College.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Cambridge.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Collins warn the Anstruthers about the rose garden?

2. What does Dennistoun decide not to publish in "The Mezzotint"?

3. Why does the landlord tell Mr. Anderson there is no room 13?

4. Whose scrapbook does the caretaker, in "Canon Alberic's Scrapbook," show the Englishman?

5. What language does school master Sampson try to teach the boys in "A School Story"?

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