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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 Runt think he will be ok when he runs away from home?
(a) He has read fairy stories and knows that there are good people as well as monsters out there.
(b) He knows it will not be long before he is found and brought home, but wants to make a point.
(c) He thinks the police will protect him if anyone tries to hurt him.
(d) He plans to go find distant relatives and stay with them.

2. What does the woman from the bar say happened to a young man in New Orleans?
(a) He woke up one day to find that his identity had been stolen.
(b) He fell in love with a voodoo priestess who cursed him and now uses him as a slave.
(c) He was drugged with zombie powder and craved it until he became little more than a zombie himself.
(d) He got involved with bad men and was killed and tuned into a zombie.

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

4. In 'The Hidden Chamber' what does the poet tell the reader not to be afraid of?
(a) Himself.
(b) The butterfly.
(c) The dark.
(d) The ghosts in the house.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does a woman from the bar take the narrator?

2. In 'Bitter Grounds' what is the narrator doing when he decides to just keep driving and run away from his old life?

3. In the third ghost story, what are the three older boys looking at when the narrator sees them on his way home from school?

4. In Greta's dream, what does Aslan do to Susan and Lucy?

5. After following the path away from the river, what does Runt come to?

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