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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. What is this person traveling to present a paper on?
(a) Breakthroughs in dental hygiene.
(b) Metaphor in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
(c) Haitian coffee girls.
(d) Death and the afterlife in different cultures.

2. In New Orleans, who does the narrator and another professor meet in a bar?
(a) The man whose identity the narrator has stolen.
(b) A zombie master, who spikes their drinks with zombie powder.
(c) Two identical women with different colored ribbons in their hair.
(d) A strange old woman who offers to tell their fortunes.

3. Where does a woman from the bar take the narrator?
(a) Back to the hotel.
(b) To a bar for gumbo.
(c) To an abandoned house.
(d) To a graveyard.

4. What is the first story about?
(a) A woman who falls in love with a man at an airport by looking at the x-ray of his luggage.
(b) A little boy who is dared by some other boys to knock on the door of a strange playhouse. The playhouse traps the other boys and they are never seen again.
(c) A chef who changes a customer's order to suit the wine, but the customer ends up having an allergy to the food.
(d) A boy who plays a cello very badly, and one day manages to inexplicably play fantastic music on it, but breaks it the next day and can never play it properly again.

5. What does the old man tell them his father used the cages for?
(a) To lock up the boys when they were naughty.
(b) To lock up the dogs he used for hunting.
(c) To keep strange animals in.
(d) To lock up people who trespassed on the land.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is scary about the playhouse door?

2. In 'The Hidden Chamber' what does the poet tell the reader not to be afraid of?

3. In 'Strange Little Girls' what does the policewoman in 'Monday's Child' find at the school?

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

5. In 'Other People' what is the worst form of torture that the demon inflicts on the man?

(see the answer key)

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