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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the narrator do the next day?
(a) He digs up a grave in the graveyard and finds the body of his friend.
(b) He goes in search of the woman from the bar.
(c) He presents the professor's paper.
(d) He leaves New Orleans as quickly as he can.

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

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

5. What does the ghost boy tell Runt his name is?
(a) Donald.
(b) He doesn't tell him his name.
(c) Dearly.
(d) Max.

6. In the third ghost story, what are the three older boys looking at when the narrator sees them on his way home from school?
(a) A treasure map.
(b) An old wrecked car.
(c) A dead bird.
(d) A pornographic magazine.

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

8. Why are the first two ghost stories unsatisfying?
(a) They are told badly.
(b) They are urban legends and do not make a lot of sense.
(c) They do not involve any of the people at the club.
(d) They are not actually about ghosts.

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

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

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 urinates in it.
(b) He vandalizes it.
(c) He throws rocks in it.
(d) He lies down and falls asleep.

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

13. What do they plan to do with Miss Finch?
(a) Go to the cinema, then bowling.
(b) Go to a circus show, then out for sushi.
(c) Go to a play, then out dancing.
(d) Go shopping in London.

14. In 'The Hidden Chamber' what does the poet tell the reader not to be afraid of?
(a) The ghosts in the house.
(b) The butterfly.
(c) The dark.
(d) Himself.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When he returns to the car and finds the man gone, what does the narrator find?

3. Who is in the car with Mr. Alice when he picks up the narrator at the station?

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

5. What happens to Miss Finch?

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