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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. In October's story, who first nicknames the boy Runt, and why?
(a) His brothers name him Runt, because he is younger, smaller and weaker than them.
(b) His teacher names him Runt after a character from a book who was small and weak.
(c) He names himself Runt, to show that he doesn't care what others say about him.
(d) His parents name him Runt, because he is their least favorite child.

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

3. 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.

4. Why does August stop the story before the storyteller can finish?
(a) He has heard it before.
(b) It is too boring.
(c) It is scaring April.
(d) It is not a true story.

5. What does the professor not like about Victorian children's literature?
(a) It is too moralizing.
(b) The children in the stories are always boring.
(c) It is too unbelievable.
(d) There are too many fairies in it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Miss Finch do?

2. Who offers to tell the next story?

3. In 'October in the Chair,' who tells the first story?

4. What happens when the three older boys go inside?

5. In the poem 'Instructions' what is it important to always trust?

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