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

2. Where does a woman from the bar take the narrator?
(a) To an abandoned house.
(b) To a bar for gumbo.
(c) Back to the hotel.
(d) To a graveyard.

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

4. What does the old Shahinai woman take in exchange for the young man?
(a) Weapons.
(b) Gold.
(c) Diamonds.
(d) A winning lottery ticket for the New York State Lottery.

5. At a cafe, how does the narrator identify himself?
(a) As a nobody.
(b) As a zombie.
(c) As a professor.
(d) As a famous actor.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why does the narrator's passenger ask him to go back to the hotel?

4. After following the path away from the river, what does Runt come to?

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

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