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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Goliath, and Pages from a Journal Found in a Shoebox Left in a Greyhound Bus Somewhere Between Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Louisville, Kentucky.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 'The Lovers' what do the townsfolk find when they open up the woman's coffin?
(a) The corpse has disappeared.
(b) Her lover's body is now with her, and she is pregnant.
(c) The corpse is covered in blood.
(d) The corpse looks flushed and alive, with no decay.

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

3. Where is the author the second time reality seems to fade?
(a) On the tube.
(b) In bed.
(c) In his car.
(d) At work.

4. What does the boy in 'The Flints of Memory Lane' see that frightens him so much?
(a) A vision of the future in which he is dead.
(b) A strange shadow that looks like a huge black dog.
(c) The ghost of his friend, who died a month ago.
(d) A gypsy woman with an unpleasant smile.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the killer know that the detective is on his track?

2. Why does the narrator kill the deputy head of the orphanage?

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

4. What happens the day after the narrator plays beautiful music on the instrument?

5. In 'Justice,' why have the townsfolk condemned a baby to die?

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