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

2. What does the boy in 'The Flints of Memory Lane' see that frightens him so much?
(a) A gypsy woman with an unpleasant smile.
(b) A strange shadow that looks like a huge black dog.
(c) The ghost of his friend, who died a month ago.
(d) A vision of the future in which he is dead.

3. In his note, why did the killer say that he murdered the German Old One?
(a) The Old Ones are weak and deserve to die.
(b) The Old Ones are planning to destroy mankind.
(c) The Old Ones are evil and enjoy inflicting suffering.
(d) The killer is an Old One who believes the Old Ones should not have relationships with humans.

4. What explanation does the detective give for the word 'Rache' being written on the wall at the crime scene?
(a) The victim was trying to write the name of his killer - Rachel.
(b) Rache is the name of a particularly powerful Old One.
(c) Rache means 'revenge' in German.
(d) Rache is the name of a resistance group who fight the Old Ones.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the ghost boy tell Runt his name is?

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

3. In 'The Hidden Chamber' what does the poet tell the reader not to be afraid of?

4. Why did she come to this house instead?

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

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