1. In 'Good Boys Deserve Favors' what instrument does the narrator learn?
(a) The acoustic guitar.
(b) The viola.
(c) The flute.
(d) The double bass.

2. Who suddenly turns up in the young writer's house?
(a) Amelia Earnshawe.
(b) His lost wife, who left him long ago.
(c) A publisher who is interested in his book.
(d) His older brother who he thought was dead.

3. What is the first story about?
(a) A chef who changes a customer's order to suit the wine, but the customer ends up having an allergy to the food.
(b) 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.
(c) A woman who falls in love with a man at an airport by looking at the x-ray of his luggage.
(d) 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.

4. What happens the day after the narrator plays beautiful music on the instrument?
(a) He falls and breaks the instrument.
(b) The instrument disappears.
(c) He gives up playing, as he knows he will never play like that again.
(d) He moves school, and the new school does not give lessons in that instrument.

5. When he returns to the car and finds the man gone, what does the narrator find?
(a) The typescript of his paper and a hotel reservation in New Orleans.
(b) The man's clothes, with no sign of their owner.
(c) A gun and a wad of money.
(d) The typescript of his paper and a book about zombies.