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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sunbird, Inventing Aladdin, and The Monarch of the Glen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the narrator pulled out of the Matrix?
(a) To pilot a space fighter ship.
(b) He is too aware of the machines' control.
(c) To help stop the rebels.
(d) To help them understand the human mind.

2. What do the boys dare the narrator to do?
(a) Burn the playhouse down.
(b) Go inside the playhouse.
(c) Knock on the playhouse door.
(d) Look inside the window of the playhouse.

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

4. What is the second stage of the disease?
(a) Violence.
(b) Fixation on diseases.
(c) Vomiting.
(d) A rash.

5. How does the detective know that the narrator was in Afghanistan?
(a) He is wearing his war medal.
(b) The detective also served in Afghanistan and remembers seeing him there.
(c) His shoulder injury is consistent with Afghan cave-folk torture methods.
(d) He is wearing military grade boots that were given to soldiers in Afghanistan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was written on the postcard that the narrator found?

2. What does Susan dream about?

3. In 'October in the Chair,' who tells the first story?

4. After following the path away from the river, what does Runt come to?

5. What does the boy in 'The Flints of Memory Lane' see that frightens him so much?

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