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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 has next door's cat left on the professor's doormat?
(a) Today's newspaper.
(b) Cat vomit.
(c) The head and paw of a mouse.
(d) A dead sparrow.

2. In 'My Life' what does the poet claim caused the death of his wife?
(a) A haunted dishwasher caused her to liquefy.
(b) Aliens killed her, but this was hushed up by the government.
(c) Lavatorial waste falling from a plane fell on her head.
(d) A bear killed her after she went insane and believed she was a bear cub.

3. Why does the narrator not understand the jokes the other boys tell?
(a) He doesn't know the people they are talking about.
(b) The jokes are about a playhouse he has never been to.
(c) He is too young for them.
(d) They are speaking another language.

4. Why does August stop the story before the storyteller can finish?
(a) It is too boring.
(b) It is not a true story.
(c) He has heard it before.
(d) It is scaring April.

5. In 'Harlequin Valentine' what does Harlequin pin on Missy's front door?
(a) A card.
(b) A charcoal drawing of Missy.
(c) A red and black striped ribbon.
(d) His heart.

Short Answer Questions

1. What children does the narrator have?

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

3. What do they plan to do with Miss Finch?

4. What explanation does the detective give for the word 'Rache' being written on the wall at the crime scene?

5. In 'The Hidden Chamber' what does the poet tell the reader not to be afraid of?

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