View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Closing Time, and Going Wodwo.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the writer does try writing fantasy, what is Amelia doing now?
(a) Fighting orcs.
(b) Trying to kill the writer.
(c) Making toast.
(d) Flying a spaceship.

2. What does Runt decide at the end of the story?
(a) To return to his family, who he knows will miss him if he stays with Dearly.
(b) To go into the farmhouse, so he can stay with Dearly forever as a ghost.
(c) To take Dearly home with him, so he can haunt his brothers.
(d) To go to the police to report that there are dangerous things living in the farmhouse.

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

4. How does the killer know that the detective is on his track?
(a) The detective pretended to be a fan, but forgot the name of the play.
(b) He has seen the detective before, so he saw straight through his disguise.
(c) The detective pretended to be American but used a southern accent when he said he was from the north.
(d) The detective pretended to be a pipe smoker, but his pipe was brand new and he had no tobacco.

5. Who offers to tell the next story?
(a) June.
(b) April.
(c) August.
(d) September.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why can the narrator not return to fairyland?

2. What does the old man tell Amelia she will find in the house?

3. What is the name of the club in the story 'Closing Time'?

4. Who suggests that the young man should try writing fantasy instead?

5. What is the third play in the trio that the detective takes the narrator to?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 353 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample