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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Harlequin refer to Missy?
(a) As Queen of Love.
(b) As his Valentine.
(c) As his future wife.
(d) As his Columbine.

3. What does Miss Corvier ask Eddie to bring her?
(a) Soup.
(b) Raw meat.
(c) Mushrooms.
(d) Coffee.

4. In 'Pages from a Journal...' for whom is the narrator searching?
(a) An unnamed woman.
(b) Scarlet.
(c) Angel.
(d) God.

5. What will eventually happen to the sufferer?
(a) He will die.
(b) He will go into a coma.
(c) He will become incoherent.
(d) He will be paralyzed from the waist down.

6. Who lets the boys in to the party?
(a) A girl called Stella.
(b) Alison.
(c) A moody looking boy.
(d) Alison's parents.

7. In 'The Star,' where does the vampire say that vampires came from originally?
(a) The star constellation Draco.
(b) A very distant planet.
(c) The star constellation Ares.
(d) The sun.

8. In 'Fifteen Painted Cards...' what does the man in 'The Fool' want?
(a) To be a vampire.
(b) To kiss a vampire.
(c) To talk to a vampire.
(d) To kill a vampire.

9. In 'Justice,' why have the townsfolk condemned a baby to die?
(a) They think it is a changeling.
(b) They think it is the child of a vampire.
(c) They think it is cursed.
(d) They think it killed the coach maker and his wife.

10. From what does he ask the model to protect him?
(a) Being taken advantage of.
(b) Feeling anything again.
(c) Being cheated on as he cheated on his wife.
(d) His wife's anger.

11. When Scarlet calls the narrator, what does she tell him/her?
(a) Where to find her.
(b) To stop searching for her.
(c) She is lost.
(d) The narrator is loved.

12. What was written on the postcard that the narrator found?
(a) I love you.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Find me.
(d) Remember.

13. What now happens to Missy and Harlequin?
(a) They disappear.
(b) They switch roles.
(c) They fall in love.
(d) They fight.

14. What is the professor's book about?
(a) Philosophy of religion and the existence of God.
(b) Why gossip is a sin.
(c) What happened to her in Narnia.
(d) Meaning in children's fiction.

15. What does the narrator make out of plasticine?
(a) His own face.
(b) A gargoyle.
(c) A heart.
(d) Becky's face.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does she describe the world?

2. Why is diagnosing Disease Maker's Croup difficult?

3. The first time the world seems to dissolve away for the author, whom does he meet?

4. When he meets Becky again years later, what does she tell him was the real reason for her breaking up with him?

5. Whom does Disease Maker's Croup affect?

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