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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the detective know that the narrator was in Afghanistan?
(a) The detective also served in Afghanistan and remembers seeing him there.
(b) He is wearing his war medal.
(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.

2. Why is the young writer upset?
(a) He doesn't want to be a writer and wishes he could be a baker instead.
(b) He is trying to write horror but it is not scary enough.
(c) He is trying to write about reality, but he keeps parodying it.
(d) He is trying to write about himself, but for some reason keeps writing about Amelia.

3. Who suddenly turns up in the young writer's house?
(a) His older brother who he thought was dead.
(b) A publisher who is interested in his book.
(c) Amelia Earnshawe.
(d) His lost wife, who left him long ago.

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

5. What else do they want from her?
(a) Her hand in marriage.
(b) A cup of tea.
(c) A key to the treasure.
(d) Some bread rolls.

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

7. Who suggests that the young man should try writing fantasy instead?
(a) His older brother.
(b) A raven.
(c) Amelia.
(d) The butler.

8. In the third ghost story, what are the three older boys looking at when the narrator sees them on his way home from school?
(a) A treasure map.
(b) A dead bird.
(c) A pornographic magazine.
(d) An old wrecked car.

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

10. When they get to the circus, why is Miss Finch unimpressed?
(a) There are no seats.
(b) The music is too loud.
(c) The costumes are rubbish.
(d) The venue is very dirty.

11. When the writer does try writing fantasy, what is Amelia doing now?
(a) Making toast.
(b) Flying a spaceship.
(c) Trying to kill the writer.
(d) Fighting orcs.

12. What does the narrator do the next day?
(a) He digs up a grave in the graveyard and finds the body of his friend.
(b) He goes in search of the woman from the bar.
(c) He leaves New Orleans as quickly as he can.
(d) He presents the professor's paper.

13. What is the third play in the trio that the detective takes the narrator to?
(a) A play celebrating the victory of the Old Ones over mankind.
(b) A play about the murder of an Old One.
(c) A play condemning the Old Ones as tyrants.
(d) A play about a vampire.

14. In his note, why did the killer say that he murdered the German Old One?
(a) The killer is an Old One who believes the Old Ones should not have relationships with humans.
(b) The Old Ones are weak and deserve to die.
(c) The Old Ones are planning to destroy mankind.
(d) The Old Ones are evil and enjoy inflicting suffering.

15. 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) The ghost of his friend, who died a month ago.
(d) A vision of the future in which he is dead.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Miss Finch do?

2. What happens to Miss Finch?

3. Who offers to tell the next story?

4. What is weird about Miss Finch in the ninth room?

5. What does the ghost boy tell Runt his name is?

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