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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What explanation does the detective give for the word 'Rache' being written on the wall at the crime scene?
(a) Rache is the name of a resistance group who fight the Old Ones.
(b) The victim was trying to write the name of his killer - Rachel.
(c) Rache means 'revenge' in German.
(d) Rache is the name of a particularly powerful Old One.

2. What does June say before October's story begins?
(a) She sometimes feels as if they are being watched.
(b) She would like to be in the chair next month.
(c) She doesn't like horror stories.
(d) She thinks October should wait until last to tell his story.

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

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

5. What do the boys dare the narrator to do?
(a) Go inside the playhouse.
(b) Look inside the window of the playhouse.
(c) Knock on the playhouse door.
(d) Burn the playhouse down.

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

7. What does Miss Finch do?
(a) She is a surgeon.
(b) She is a nuclear physicist.
(c) She is a biogeologist.
(d) She is a criminal defense lawyer.

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

9. Why does the narrator's passenger ask him to go back to the hotel?
(a) He is sick of his company.
(b) He accidentally brought his room key with him.
(c) He forgot his presentation notes for his paper.
(d) He forgot his wallet.

10. What is the first story about?
(a) 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.
(b) A chef who changes a customer's order to suit the wine, but the customer ends up having an allergy to the food.
(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.

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

12. In 'Keepsakes and Treasures,' who admitted the narrator's mother into an insane asylum?
(a) Her own father.
(b) Mr. Alice.
(c) Her own grandfather.
(d) The narrator.

13. Who offers to tell the next story?
(a) June.
(b) April.
(c) August.
(d) September.

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

15. 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 left her husband.
(c) She has been killed.
(d) She has lost her baby in childbirth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is in the eighth room of the circus?

2. How does the detective know that the narrator was in Afghanistan?

3. What is scary about the playhouse door?

4. Who suddenly turns up in the young writer's house?

5. In 'October in the Chair,' who tells the first story?

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