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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the professor's parents, brothers, and sister die?
(a) Sickness.
(b) A road accident.
(c) A bomb during World War II.
(d) A train crash.

2. What is pitiable about sufferers?
(a) They have frequent bursts of sense amid the nonsense.
(b) They are in a great deal of pain.
(c) They think that the whole world is against them.
(d) They begin to lose their memories.

3. What does the professor dream about that night?
(a) Her family.
(b) A new world.
(c) Mary Poppins.
(d) Aslan.

4. With what does he baptize the model?
(a) Whiskey.
(b) Water.
(c) His blood.
(d) His tears.

5. What does the third stage of the disease affect?
(a) The lungs.
(b) Strength.
(c) Physicality.
(d) Speech and thought.

6. In 'Harlequin Valentine' what does Harlequin pin on Missy's front door?
(a) His heart.
(b) A charcoal drawing of Missy.
(c) A red and black striped ribbon.
(d) A card.

7. When Eddie checks to see what is making a horrible howling noise, what does he find?
(a) The cat is still alive, but half eaten.
(b) The cat is eating Miss Corvier alive.
(c) The cat has been skinned, but is still alive.
(d) The cat is giving birth.

8. In 'Temperance' what does the vampire say Chinese vampires drink instead of blood?
(a) Synthetic blood.
(b) Spinal fluid.
(c) Tears.
(d) V8.

9. After sleeping with Becky, what does the narrator see during the night, which may or may not be a dream?
(a) The plasticine model he created killing Becky.
(b) Becky ripping the plasticine model out of his chest and squashing it.
(c) The plasticine model he created retreating back into his chest with some of Becky's hair.
(d) The plasticine model he created hovering over him, pointing at Becky and shaking its head.

10. Why does the narrator not want to go to the party?
(a) He is too shy to talk to girls.
(b) He hates loud music.
(c) He thinks parties are stupid.
(d) He is not feeling well.

11. What story is the father reading to his child in 'Locks'?
(a) Sleeping Beauty.
(b) Rapunzel.
(c) Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
(d) Cinderella.

12. What decision does the narrator make?
(a) He kills himself.
(b) He wants to join the rebels.
(c) He wants to join the machines.
(d) He wants to be plugged back into the Matrix.

13. What is the name of the girl whom the narrator talks to in the conservatory?
(a) Triolet.
(b) Second.
(c) Wain's Wain.
(d) Star.

14. What does Harlequin's costume look like?
(a) It is covered in purple and white crosses.
(b) It is striped red and black.
(c) It is striped purple and white.
(d) It is covered in red and black diamonds.

15. What does Eddie do?
(a) He runs away.
(b) He kills Miss Corvier.
(c) He kills the cat.
(d) He takes the cat to Miss Corvier to eat.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the man, who is attacking?

2. What does Miss Corvier give Eddie Barrow as a present?

3. Why does the person in the poem not notice the end of the world?

4. Where does Harlequin find himself at the end of the story?

5. What reason does Becky give for breaking up with the narrator?

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