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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. After sleeping with Becky, what does the narrator see during the night, which may or may not be a dream?
(a) The plasticine model he created hovering over him, pointing at Becky and shaking its head.
(b) The plasticine model he created retreating back into his chest with some of Becky's hair.
(c) Becky ripping the plasticine model out of his chest and squashing it.
(d) The plasticine model he created killing Becky.

2. Whom does the narrator meet at a motel, and offer to give a ride to?
(a) A hitchhiker.
(b) An English Literature professor.
(c) An anthropology professor.
(d) A dentist.

3. What does Runt decide at the end of the story?
(a) To go to the police to report that there are dangerous things living in the farmhouse.
(b) To take Dearly home with him, so he can haunt his brothers.
(c) To return to his family, who he knows will miss him if he stays with Dearly.
(d) To go into the farmhouse, so he can stay with Dearly forever as a ghost.

4. How old is Becky and how old is the narrator when he begins seeing her behind his wife's back?
(a) She is eighteen, and he is thirty.
(b) She is twenty-four, and he is thirty.
(c) She is thirty, and he is nineteen.
(d) She is twenty, and he is twenty-seven.

5. What does the boy in 'The Flints of Memory Lane' see that frightens him so much?
(a) A strange shadow that looks like a huge black dog.
(b) A gypsy woman with an unpleasant smile.
(c) A vision of the future in which he is dead.
(d) The ghost of his friend, who died a month ago.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 'Other People' what is the worst form of torture that the demon inflicts on the man?

2. What does Miss Finch do?

3. What is in the eighth room of the circus?

4. What happens to the Shahinai man after eight months?

5. In 'Keepsakes and Treasures,' who admitted the narrator's mother into an insane asylum?

(see the answer key)

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