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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is trying to attack Amelia as she hides in the woodcutter's cottage?
(a) Vampires.
(b) Lord Falconmere.
(c) The writer.
(d) Ghoul-lords.

2. What is the Swallows?
(a) A playhouse.
(b) A manor house.
(c) A river.
(d) A den that the three boys built from tree branches.

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

4. What is the first story about?
(a) 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.
(b) A woman who falls in love with a man at an airport by looking at the x-ray of his luggage.
(c) 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.
(d) A chef who changes a customer's order to suit the wine, but the customer ends up having an allergy to the food.

5. What bad habits does the detective warn the narrator that he has?
(a) He snores and tests poisons on the dog.
(b) He is very messy and likes to practice firing his gun at night.
(c) He is very messy and is visited at all hours by strange people.
(d) He snores and uses the mantelpiece for target practice.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does the narrator not understand the jokes the other boys tell?

3. Why does Inspector Lestrade visit them?

4. Whom does the detective suspect of committing the murder, and why?

5. Why does Runt think he will be ok when he runs away from home?

(see the answer key)

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