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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. Who is trying to attack Amelia as she hides in the woodcutter's cottage?
(a) Vampires.
(b) The writer.
(c) Ghoul-lords.
(d) Lord Falconmere.

3. What does Runt decide at the end of the story?
(a) To go to the police to report that there are dangerous things living in the farmhouse.
(b) To take Dearly home with him, so he can haunt his brothers.
(c) To return to his family, who he knows will miss him if he stays with Dearly.
(d) To go into the farmhouse, so he can stay with Dearly forever as a ghost.

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

5. What does the ghost boy tell Runt his name is?
(a) Dearly.
(b) Donald.
(c) Max.
(d) He doesn't tell him his name.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What do the two of them do?

4. In the poem 'Going Wodwo' why does the narrator give up his shirt, book, coat, and life?

5. What does the old man tell them his father used the cages for?

(see the answer key)

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