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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. Why does Inspector Lestrade visit them?
(a) He wants the detective to find a criminal member of the resistance.
(b) He is an old friend and has come for a chat.
(c) He wants the detective to join forces with him against the Old Ones.
(d) He wants the detective to investigate the murder of one of the German royal family.

2. Whom does the detective suspect of committing the murder, and why?
(a) Prince Albert.
(b) Vernet and his friend the 'Limping Doctor.'
(c) Vernet.
(d) Inspector Lestrade.

3. In the poem 'Going Wodwo' why does the narrator give up his shirt, book, coat, and life?
(a) To atone for his past crimes.
(b) To join a nudist colony.
(c) To go live freely in the woods like a wild man.
(d) To give to the poor.

4. How does the killer know that the detective is on his track?
(a) The detective pretended to be American but used a southern accent when he said he was from the north.
(b) The detective pretended to be a pipe smoker, but his pipe was brand new and he had no tobacco.
(c) He has seen the detective before, so he saw straight through his disguise.
(d) The detective pretended to be a fan, but forgot the name of the play.

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?
(a) A dead bird.
(b) A pornographic magazine.
(c) A treasure map.
(d) An old wrecked car.

Short Answer Questions

1. In October's story, who first nicknames the boy Runt, and why?

2. How does the detective know that the narrator was in Afghanistan?

3. What does Runt decide at the end of the story?

4. When the writer does try writing fantasy, what is Amelia doing now?

5. What do the two of them do?

(see the answer key)

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