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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. 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 keep strange animals in.
(c) To lock up people who trespassed on the land.
(d) To lock up the dogs he used for hunting.

2. Why are the first two ghost stories unsatisfying?
(a) They are told badly.
(b) They do not involve any of the people at the club.
(c) They are not actually about ghosts.
(d) They are urban legends and do not make a lot of sense.

3. Why does the narrator not understand the jokes the other boys tell?
(a) He doesn't know the people they are talking about.
(b) The jokes are about a playhouse he has never been to.
(c) They are speaking another language.
(d) He is too young for them.

4. How does the detective know that the narrator was in Afghanistan?
(a) He is wearing his war medal.
(b) The detective also served in Afghanistan and remembers seeing him there.
(c) His shoulder injury is consistent with Afghan cave-folk torture methods.
(d) He is wearing military grade boots that were given to soldiers in Afghanistan.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In his note, why did the killer say that he murdered the German Old One?

2. What bad habits does the detective warn the narrator that he has?

3. In 'October in the Chair,' who tells the first story?

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

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

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