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

2. What does the professor say being left behind meant for her?
(a) She could never be happy again.
(b) She had to identify the bodies.
(c) She was finally free to do what she wanted.
(d) She had a lucky escape.

3. What does the narrator mix into the plasticine as he creates his model?
(a) Wine.
(b) His tears.
(c) Beer.
(d) Semen.

4. Who comes for the narrator right at the end of the story?
(a) Death.
(b) A zombie master.
(c) A Haitian coffee girl.
(d) The woman with the red ribbon in her hair.

5. What is the first story about?
(a) 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.
(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 chef who changes a customer's order to suit the wine, but the customer ends up having an allergy to the food.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the old man tell them his father used the cages for?

2. What does the woman from the bar say happened to a young man in New Orleans?

3. What does Amelia promise them in return for not killing her?

4. In 'Bitter Grounds' what is the narrator doing when he decides to just keep driving and run away from his old life?

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

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