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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) The jokes are about a playhouse he has never been to.
(b) He doesn't know the people they are talking about.
(c) He is too young for them.
(d) They are speaking another language.

2. In 'Strange Little Girls' what does the policewoman in 'Monday's Child' find at the school?
(a) A missing child.
(b) A dead body.
(c) A stolen car.
(d) Drugs.

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

4. 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.

5. Why does the narrator's passenger ask him to go back to the hotel?
(a) He is sick of his company.
(b) He forgot his wallet.
(c) He forgot his presentation notes for his paper.
(d) He accidentally brought his room key with him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Miss Finch do?

2. What do the two of them do?

3. In October's story, who first nicknames the boy Runt, and why?

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

5. What kind of animal joins Miss Finch and then circles around the circus audience?

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