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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Problem of Susan, and Instructions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the professor dream about that night?
(a) Her family.
(b) A new world.
(c) Mary Poppins.
(d) Aslan.

3. 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.

4. In 'Strange Little Girls' in the story 'Raining Blood,' what two options are given to the reader?
(a) The subject of the story either survived the war or was killed by the Gestapo.
(b) to go through with her pregnancy or got an abortion.
(c) The subject of the story was either killed by her boyfriend, or rescued by her father.
(d) The subject of the story either married her baby's father or went to college and became a lawyer.

5. What is the Swallows?
(a) A playhouse.
(b) A river.
(c) A manor house.
(d) A den that the three boys built from tree branches.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is scary about the playhouse door?

2. At a cafe, how does the narrator identify himself?

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

4. What is the name of the club in the story 'Closing Time'?

5. What happens to Miss Finch?

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