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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through How Do You Think it Feels? and My Life.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Inspector Lestrade visit them?
(a) He wants the detective to investigate the murder of one of the German royal family.
(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 find a criminal member of the resistance.

3. What bad habits does the detective warn the narrator that he has?
(a) He is very messy and likes to practice firing his gun at night.
(b) He is very messy and is visited at all hours by strange people.
(c) He snores and tests poisons on the dog.
(d) He snores and uses the mantelpiece for target practice.

4. Who offers to tell the next story?
(a) June.
(b) September.
(c) April.
(d) August.

5. Why does the narrator kill the deputy head of the orphanage?
(a) He liked to starve and torture the children.
(b) He tried to send him to a new family he didn't want to go to.
(c) He sexually abused the children.
(d) He was one of the possibilities for the narrator's father.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 'My Life' what does the poet claim caused the death of his wife?

2. When the narrator kills his grandfather, what does he take from the body?

3. In 'Strange Little Girls' in the story 'Raining Blood,' what two options are given to the reader?

4. What does Harlequin's costume look like?

5. What does the ghost boy tell Runt his name is?

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