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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 Amelia she will find in the house?
(a) Death.
(b) Her inheritance.
(c) Her future husband.
(d) A lost treasure.

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

3. What is scary about the playhouse door?
(a) It has a pentagram drawn on it.
(b) It has an evil-looking red door knocker in the shape of an imp.
(c) It has blood on it.
(d) It is made of old, rusty iron that looks very heavy.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do the boys dare the narrator to do?

3. In the third ghost story, what are the three older boys looking at when the narrator sees them on his way home from school?

4. What happens when the three older boys go inside?

5. Who are the other three men at the club on the night they tell each other ghost stories?

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