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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. What is the name of the club in the story 'Closing Time'?
(a) The White Hart.
(b) The Sophocles.
(c) The Lion.
(d) The Diogenes.

2. What else do they want from her?
(a) A key to the treasure.
(b) Her hand in marriage.
(c) A cup of tea.
(d) Some bread rolls.

3. What is this person traveling to present a paper on?
(a) Death and the afterlife in different cultures.
(b) Breakthroughs in dental hygiene.
(c) Haitian coffee girls.
(d) Metaphor in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

4. What does Runt decide at the end of the story?
(a) To take Dearly home with him, so he can haunt his brothers.
(b) To go to the police to report that there are dangerous things living in the farmhouse.
(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.

5. What does the woman from the bar say happened to a young man in New Orleans?
(a) He fell in love with a voodoo priestess who cursed him and now uses him as a slave.
(b) He was drugged with zombie powder and craved it until he became little more than a zombie himself.
(c) He got involved with bad men and was killed and tuned into a zombie.
(d) He woke up one day to find that his identity had been stolen.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In New Orleans, who does the narrator and another professor meet in a bar?

3. What do the two of them do?

4. What happens when the three older boys go inside?

5. Why is the young writer upset?

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