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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 has next door's cat left on the professor's doormat?
(a) The head and paw of a mouse.
(b) Today's newspaper.
(c) A dead sparrow.
(d) Cat vomit.

2. What does the narrator do the next day?
(a) He leaves New Orleans as quickly as he can.
(b) He digs up a grave in the graveyard and finds the body of his friend.
(c) He presents the professor's paper.
(d) He goes in search of the woman from the bar.

3. Who comes for the narrator right at the end of the story?
(a) The woman with the red ribbon in her hair.
(b) A Haitian coffee girl.
(c) Death.
(d) A zombie master.

4. Whom does the narrator meet at a motel, and offer to give a ride to?
(a) An anthropology professor.
(b) An English Literature professor.
(c) A hitchhiker.
(d) A dentist.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In 'Strange Little Girls' in the story 'Raining Blood,' what two options are given to the reader?

2. In 'Strange Little Girls' in the story 'Bonnie's Mother,' what has happened to Bonnie's mother?

3. What is weird about Miss Finch in the ninth room?

4. What is the Swallows?

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

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