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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Diseasemaker's Croup, and In The End.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Swallows?
(a) A playhouse.
(b) A manor house.
(c) A den that the three boys built from tree branches.
(d) A river.

2. What does the old man tell Amelia she will find in the house?
(a) Her future husband.
(b) Her inheritance.
(c) Death.
(d) A lost treasure.

3. What disguise does Harlequin take in order to speak to Missy?
(a) A beggar.
(b) A newspaper seller.
(c) An old woman.
(d) A man walking his dog.

4. When they find a beautiful garden with a stream that looks like a fairy grotto, what does one of the boys do?
(a) He vandalizes it.
(b) He lies down and falls asleep.
(c) He urinates in it.
(d) He throws rocks in it.

5. What does the old man tell them his father used the cages for?
(a) To keep strange animals in.
(b) To lock up people who trespassed on the land.
(c) To lock up the boys when they were naughty.
(d) To lock up the dogs he used for hunting.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does the narrator meet at a motel, and offer to give a ride to?

2. What do the boys dare the narrator to do?

3. What does Miss Finch do?

4. In the third ghost story, what are the three older boys looking at when the narrator sees them on his way home from school?

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

(see the answer key)

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