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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the only sound left in the garden at the end of the story?
(a) The man taking away a name from another animal.
(b) The man and woman praying.
(c) The woman crying.
(d) God talking to his creatures.

2. What does the narrator notice is wrong with Eddie's hand?
(a) It is burned.
(b) It is a sickly green color.
(c) The flesh has been eaten away.
(d) It is broken and mangled.

3. What does the third girl whom the narrator speaks to say that she is?
(a) A poem.
(b) An alien.
(c) A star.
(d) A university student.

4. According to the man, who is attacking?
(a) Terrorists.
(b) Zombies.
(c) Aliens.
(d) The USSR.

5. What do the man and woman then do?
(a) Take off their clothes.
(b) Kill the Serpent.
(c) Pray to the Lord.
(d) Try to cover their nakedness.

6. What does the man give to the woman, who gives it to the Serpent?
(a) A fruit.
(b) A promise.
(c) A secret.
(d) A key.

7. In 'The Day the Saucers Came' what happens after the saucers come?
(a) The army arrive.
(b) Zombies rise.
(c) The four horsemen ride.
(d) A scientist tries to speak with them.

8. What does Miss Corvier give Eddie Barrow as a present?
(a) A rose.
(b) A cat.
(c) Mushrooms.
(d) Steak.

9. What disguise does Harlequin take in order to speak to Missy?
(a) A beggar.
(b) A newspaper seller.
(c) A man walking his dog.
(d) An old woman.

10. What has next door's cat left on the professor's doormat?
(a) A dead sparrow.
(b) Cat vomit.
(c) Today's newspaper.
(d) The head and paw of a mouse.

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

12. When the author suddenly finds himself back in the 70s, what happens?
(a) He finds himself married with kids.
(b) He is recruited by the RAF.
(c) The men in black coats try to kill him.
(d) Aliens attack.

13. What does the professor say being left behind meant for her?
(a) She could never be happy again.
(b) She had to identify the bodies.
(c) She had a lucky escape.
(d) She was finally free to do what she wanted.

14. What does the professor not like about Victorian children's literature?
(a) There are too many fairies in it.
(b) The children in the stories are always boring.
(c) It is too unbelievable.
(d) It is too moralizing.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is pitiable about sufferers?

2. How do the boys know Alison?

3. What is the professor's book about?

4. In Greta's dream, what does Aslan do to Susan and Lucy?

5. When Scarlet calls the narrator, what does she tell him/her?

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