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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the second girl the narrator speaks to say she enjoys?
(a) Exploring the world.
(b) Being a tourist.
(c) Eating humans.
(d) Hunting.

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

3. What is remarkable about the narrator of 'Goliath'?
(a) He is a genius.
(b) He is very tall.
(c) He is very small.
(d) He is very fat.

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

5. What does the narrator mix into the plasticine as he creates his model?
(a) Wine.
(b) His tears.
(c) Beer.
(d) Semen.

6. Why does the person in the poem not notice the end of the world?
(a) They are asleep.
(b) They are too busy watching TV.
(c) They are waiting for a phone call.
(d) They are blind and deaf.

7. In Greta's dream, what does Aslan do to Susan and Lucy?
(a) He eats them.
(b) He sends them away.
(c) He laughs at them.
(d) He takes them to heaven.

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

9. What does Missy do next?
(a) She burns Harlequin's gift.
(b) She shares her food with Harlequin.
(c) She throws soda on Harlequin so that she can see where he is.
(d) She eats Harlequin's heart.

10. What has happened to her people?
(a) They killed themselves.
(b) They left in search of truth on other worlds.
(c) They were attacked by aliens.
(d) Their planet died.

11. Where does Harlequin find himself at the end of the story?
(a) On a beach.
(b) On a cold lonely moor.
(c) Working in the cafe.
(d) At home in bed.

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

13. How do the boys know Alison?
(a) Her parents are friends with Vic's parents.
(b) They met her on a German exchange trip.
(c) She goes to school with them.
(d) They were in a play together.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In 'Temperance' what does the vampire say Chinese vampires drink instead of blood?

2. In her dream, what does Susan notice about the White Witch?

3. Why has Greta come to see the professor?

4. What does Missy order at the cafe?

5. What is the second stage of the disease?

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