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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the old Shahinai woman take in exchange for the young man?
(a) A winning lottery ticket for the New York State Lottery.
(b) Gold.
(c) Weapons.
(d) Diamonds.

2. What is the third play in the trio that the detective takes the narrator to?
(a) A play about a vampire.
(b) A play celebrating the victory of the Old Ones over mankind.
(c) A play condemning the Old Ones as tyrants.
(d) A play about the murder of an Old One.

3. What does Runt decide at the end of the story?
(a) To go into the farmhouse, so he can stay with Dearly forever as a ghost.
(b) To return to his family, who he knows will miss him if he stays with Dearly.
(c) To go to the police to report that there are dangerous things living in the farmhouse.
(d) To take Dearly home with him, so he can haunt his brothers.

4. When they find a beautiful garden with a stream that looks like a fairy grotto, what does one of the boys do?
(a) He vandalizes it.
(b) He lies down and falls asleep.
(c) He throws rocks in it.
(d) He urinates in it.

5. What does Amelia promise them in return for not killing her?
(a) Chocolate.
(b) The deeds to the house.
(c) A lock of her hair.
(d) Brides.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mr. Alice's main interest outside of business?

2. Why can the narrator not return to fairyland?

3. What does the old man tell Amelia she will find in the house?

4. Why does Inspector Lestrade visit them?

5. How did the narrator first meet the detective?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do you think the double bass allows him to play beautiful music this one time?

2. Why does Runt decide to go into the farmhouse at the end of October's story?

3. Why do you think the narrator gives up his old life, and why does he pretend to be the professor?

4. In 'The Faery Reel,' what kind of place is fairyland?

5. Why does the narrator see a Haitian coffee girl at the end of the story?

6. Who tells the story about the playhouse in 'Closing Time,' and what evidence is there that this person is the storyteller?

7. Describe the character of the detective in 'A Study in Emerald.'

8. Is Amelia a sympathetic character?

9. How do the characteristics and personalities of the months in the story 'October in the Chair' reflect the different months of the year?

10. Describe the character of Mr. Alice.

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