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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. Why can the narrator not return to fairyland?
(a) He is too old.
(b) He broke a fairy's heart.
(c) He doesn't believe in fairies anymore.
(d) He was thrown out and told never to return.

2. Why was Amelia on her way to Lord Falconmere's house?
(a) To claim her birthright.
(b) To work as a cook in his kitchen.
(c) To beg him to marry her.
(d) To work as a governess for his children.

3. In 'The Hidden Chamber' what does the poet tell the reader not to be afraid of?
(a) The butterfly.
(b) Himself.
(c) The dark.
(d) The ghosts in the house.

4. Who are the other three men at the club on the night they tell each other ghost stories?
(a) Neil (a writer), Martyn (a drunk), and Daniel (who never told them his profession).
(b) Sam (a drunk), Martyn (a plastic surgeon), and Ollie (a mechanic).
(c) Paul (an actor), Martyn (a gaming magazine editor), and an unnamed old man.
(d) Paul (a police inspector), Robert (a writer), and an unnamed old man.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who suddenly turns up in the young writer's house?

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

3. What is the first story about?

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

5. Who offers to tell the next story?

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