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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the poem 'Instructions' what is it important to always trust?
(a) Your heart and your story.
(b) Dragons.
(c) The youngest princess.
(d) That the path will lead you home.

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

3. In 'My Life' what does the poet claim caused the death of his wife?
(a) A haunted dishwasher caused her to liquefy.
(b) Lavatorial waste falling from a plane fell on her head.
(c) Aliens killed her, but this was hushed up by the government.
(d) A bear killed her after she went insane and believed she was a bear cub.

4. What does the narrator find in a blueberry bush?
(a) Another postcard.
(b) A necklace.
(c) A diary.
(d) A red thread.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. What is the second stage of the disease?
(a) Violence.
(b) Fixation on diseases.
(c) A rash.
(d) Vomiting.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whom does Disease Maker's Croup affect?

3. What children does the narrator have?

4. What does the third girl whom the narrator speaks to say that she is?

5. What disguise does Harlequin take in order to speak to Missy?

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