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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In 'October in the Chair,' who tells the first story?
(a) April.
(b) September.
(c) November.
(d) January.

3. In 'Other People' what is the worst form of torture that the demon inflicts on the man?
(a) It puts him in an iron maiden.
(b) It makes him relive everything bad that he has ever done.
(c) It pulls his fingernails out.
(d) It forces him to watch the deaths of all the people he has ever loved.

4. How did the narrator first meet the detective?
(a) They sat next to each other at the theatre.
(b) He met him in the army.
(c) The detective consulted him on a case.
(d) He was looking for somewhere to live.

5. What is weird about Miss Finch in the ninth room?
(a) She does not remember who they are.
(b) She seems to be blind.
(c) Her hair and eyes have changed color.
(d) She is wearing a jungle costume.

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

7. What is this person traveling to present a paper on?
(a) Haitian coffee girls.
(b) Breakthroughs in dental hygiene.
(c) Metaphor in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
(d) Death and the afterlife in different cultures.

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

9. 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) He is wearing military grade boots that were given to soldiers in Afghanistan.
(d) His shoulder injury is consistent with Afghan cave-folk torture methods.

10. In 'Strange Little Girls' in the story 'Bonnie's Mother,' what has happened to Bonnie's mother?
(a) She has been arrested.
(b) She has been killed.
(c) She has left her husband.
(d) She has lost her baby in childbirth.

11. What does the boy in 'The Flints of Memory Lane' see that frightens him so much?
(a) The ghost of his friend, who died a month ago.
(b) A strange shadow that looks like a huge black dog.
(c) A gypsy woman with an unpleasant smile.
(d) A vision of the future in which he is dead.

12. Why does August stop the story before the storyteller can finish?
(a) It is not a true story.
(b) It is too boring.
(c) It is scaring April.
(d) He has heard it before.

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

14. In October's story, who first nicknames the boy Runt, and why?
(a) He names himself Runt, to show that he doesn't care what others say about him.
(b) His brothers name him Runt, because he is younger, smaller and weaker than them.
(c) His parents name him Runt, because he is their least favorite child.
(d) His teacher names him Runt after a character from a book who was small and weak.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is the narrator when Mr. Alice's people find him?

2. Who suggests that the young man should try writing fantasy instead?

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

4. What else do they want from her?

5. What does Amelia promise them in return for not killing her?

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