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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Keepsakes and Treasures, and Good Boys Deserve Favors.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are the other three men at the club on the night they tell each other ghost stories?
(a) Paul (a police inspector), Robert (a writer), and an unnamed old man.
(b) Paul (an actor), Martyn (a gaming magazine editor), and an unnamed old man.
(c) Sam (a drunk), Martyn (a plastic surgeon), and Ollie (a mechanic).
(d) Neil (a writer), Martyn (a drunk), and Daniel (who never told them his profession).

2. What happens when the three older boys go inside?
(a) There is the sound of an evil laugh on the wind.
(b) The narrator runs away and never looks back.
(c) The door shuts behind them and they do not come out.
(d) The playhouse disappears, taking them with it.

3. Why does August stop the story before the storyteller can finish?
(a) It is scaring April.
(b) It is too boring.
(c) It is not a true story.
(d) He has heard it before.

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

5. What does Amelia promise them in return for not killing her?
(a) The deeds to the house.
(b) Brides.
(c) Chocolate.
(d) A lock of her hair.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 'Good Boys Deserve Favors' what instrument does the narrator learn?

2. How does the killer know that the detective is on his track?

3. What does June say before October's story begins?

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

5. Where does a woman from the bar take the narrator?

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