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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 'Strange Little Girls' in the story 'Raining Blood,' what two options are given to the reader?
(a) The subject of the story was either killed by her boyfriend, or rescued by her father.
(b) The subject of the story either survived the war or was killed by the Gestapo.
(c) to go through with her pregnancy or got an abortion.
(d) The subject of the story either married her baby's father or went to college and became a lawyer.

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

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

4. What do the two of them do?
(a) Explore and climb a tree.
(b) Play in the river.
(c) Tell ghost stories.
(d) Play hide and seek in the farmhouse.

5. What is the first story about?
(a) A chef who changes a customer's order to suit the wine, but the customer ends up having an allergy to the food.
(b) A little boy who is dared by some other boys to knock on the door of a strange playhouse. The playhouse traps the other boys and they are never seen again.
(c) A boy who plays a cello very badly, and one day manages to inexplicably play fantastic music on it, but breaks it the next day and can never play it properly again.
(d) A woman who falls in love with a man at an airport by looking at the x-ray of his luggage.

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

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

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

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

10. 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.

11. What is the name of the club in the story 'Closing Time'?
(a) The Lion.
(b) The White Hart.
(c) The Diogenes.
(d) The Sophocles.

12. In 'Bitter Grounds' what is the narrator doing when he decides to just keep driving and run away from his old life?
(a) Going to the gym.
(b) Going to his ex-girlfriend's house to beg her to take him back.
(c) Going to work.
(d) Going to the store to bring back apples.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator's passenger ask him to go back to the hotel?

2. Who comes for the narrator right at the end of the story?

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

4. In 'Strange Little Girls' in the story 'Bonnie's Mother,' what has happened to Bonnie's mother?

5. What does the old Shahinai woman take in exchange for the young man?

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