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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When he returns to the car and finds the man gone, what does the narrator find?
(a) The typescript of his paper and a hotel reservation in New Orleans.
(b) A gun and a wad of money.
(c) The man's clothes, with no sign of their owner.
(d) The typescript of his paper and a book about zombies.

2. Where does a woman from the bar take the narrator?
(a) To a graveyard.
(b) To an abandoned house.
(c) To a bar for gumbo.
(d) Back to the hotel.

3. How old is the narrator when Mr. Alice's people find him?
(a) Seventeen.
(b) Eight.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Twenty.

4. What is scary about the playhouse door?
(a) It has an evil-looking red door knocker in the shape of an imp.
(b) It is made of old, rusty iron that looks very heavy.
(c) It has a pentagram drawn on it.
(d) It has blood on it.

5. What does the narrator do when he finds the men who may have been his father?
(a) He tests them.
(b) He gives them money.
(c) He drives them insane.
(d) He kills them.

6. At a cafe, how does the narrator identify himself?
(a) As a nobody.
(b) As a zombie.
(c) As a famous actor.
(d) As a professor.

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

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

9. What happens the day after the narrator plays beautiful music on the instrument?
(a) He gives up playing, as he knows he will never play like that again.
(b) He falls and breaks the instrument.
(c) He moves school, and the new school does not give lessons in that instrument.
(d) The instrument disappears.

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

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

12. What happens to the Shahinai man after eight months?
(a) He catches flu and dies.
(b) He begins to lose his good looks.
(c) He leaves Mr. Alice and they never find him again.
(d) He is caught stealing and arrested.

13. Whom does the detective suspect of committing the murder, and why?
(a) Vernet and his friend the 'Limping Doctor.'
(b) Vernet.
(c) Prince Albert.
(d) Inspector Lestrade.

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

15. In 'Good Boys Deserve Favors' what instrument does the narrator learn?
(a) The viola.
(b) The acoustic guitar.
(c) The flute.
(d) The double bass.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In The Faery Reel, what does the narrator say the 'brown boys' will do with his heart?

3. Why does Runt think he will be ok when he runs away from home?

4. In 'The Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch' what are the professions of Jane, Jonathon, and the narrator?

5. Why does the narrator not understand the jokes the other boys tell?

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