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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In The Faery Reel, what does the narrator say the 'brown boys' will do with his heart?
(a) Play with it until it is broken.
(b) Lock it up and keep it safe.
(c) Play a song on it and dance along.
(d) Eat it.

2. To whom are the detective and the narrator taken to see after they have looked at the crime scene?
(a) The police.
(b) The resistance.
(c) The German ambassador.
(d) Queen Victoria.

3. Who are the other three men at the club on the night they tell each other ghost stories?
(a) Paul (an actor), Martyn (a gaming magazine editor), and an unnamed old man.
(b) Paul (a police inspector), Robert (a writer), and an unnamed old man.
(c) Sam (a drunk), Martyn (a plastic surgeon), and Ollie (a mechanic).
(d) Neil (a writer), Martyn (a drunk), and Daniel (who never told them his profession).

4. What is Mr. Alice's main interest outside of business?
(a) Sex.
(b) Art.
(c) Religion.
(d) Golf.

5. Who is Mr. Alice?
(a) A cult leader.
(b) A very rich and powerful man who likes to remain private.
(c) A top secret agent from Russia.
(d) A criminal mastermind who is always plotting against the government.

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

7. Why does the narrator kill the deputy head of the orphanage?
(a) He sexually abused the children.
(b) He tried to send him to a new family he didn't want to go to.
(c) He liked to starve and torture the children.
(d) He was one of the possibilities for the narrator's father.

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

9. What happens when the three older boys go inside?
(a) There is the sound of an evil laugh on the wind.
(b) The playhouse disappears, taking them with it.
(c) The narrator runs away and never looks back.
(d) The door shuts behind them and they do not come out.

10. In New Orleans, who does the narrator and another professor meet in a bar?
(a) Two identical women with different colored ribbons in their hair.
(b) The man whose identity the narrator has stolen.
(c) A zombie master, who spikes their drinks with zombie powder.
(d) A strange old woman who offers to tell their fortunes.

11. What bad habits does the detective warn the narrator that he has?
(a) He snores and uses the mantelpiece for target practice.
(b) He snores and tests poisons on the dog.
(c) He is very messy and likes to practice firing his gun at night.
(d) He is very messy and is visited at all hours by strange people.

12. What kind of animal joins Miss Finch and then circles around the circus audience?
(a) Smilodons.
(b) Mammoths.
(c) Aepyornis.
(d) Pygmy elephants.

13. Why can the narrator not return to fairyland?
(a) He doesn't believe in fairies anymore.
(b) He was thrown out and told never to return.
(c) He broke a fairy's heart.
(d) He is too old.

14. In 'Strange Little Girls' what does the policewoman in 'Monday's Child' find at the school?
(a) A missing child.
(b) A stolen car.
(c) A dead body.
(d) Drugs.

15. Who is trying to attack Amelia as she hides in the woodcutter's cottage?
(a) Ghoul-lords.
(b) The writer.
(c) Lord Falconmere.
(d) Vampires.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What happens to Miss Finch?

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

5. What does the old man tell them his father used the cages for?

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