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

2. Why is the young writer upset?
(a) He is trying to write about himself, but for some reason keeps writing about Amelia.
(b) He doesn't want to be a writer and wishes he could be a baker instead.
(c) He is trying to write horror but it is not scary enough.
(d) He is trying to write about reality, but he keeps parodying it.

3. In October's story, who first nicknames the boy Runt, and why?
(a) His parents name him Runt, because he is their least favorite child.
(b) His brothers name him Runt, because he is younger, smaller and weaker than them.
(c) He names himself Runt, to show that he doesn't care what others say about him.
(d) His teacher names him Runt after a character from a book who was small and weak.

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

5. How does the detective know that the narrator was in Afghanistan?
(a) The detective also served in Afghanistan and remembers seeing him there.
(b) He is wearing his war medal.
(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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the boy in 'The Flints of Memory Lane' see that frightens him so much?

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

3. Why did she come to this house instead?

4. What else do they want from her?

5. In 'Forbidden Brides...' what draws Amelia toward the house?

(see the answer key)

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