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

2. Who suddenly turns up in the young writer's house?
(a) A publisher who is interested in his book.
(b) His lost wife, who left him long ago.
(c) Amelia Earnshawe.
(d) His older brother who he thought was dead.

3. What happens to Miss Finch?
(a) She disappears right in front of them.
(b) She walks away into the mist.
(c) She is killed by the Smilodons.
(d) She joins the circus.

4. In New Orleans, who does the narrator and another professor meet in a bar?
(a) The man whose identity the narrator has stolen.
(b) Two identical women with different colored ribbons in their hair.
(c) A zombie master, who spikes their drinks with zombie powder.
(d) A strange old woman who offers to tell their fortunes.

5. In 'The Hidden Chamber' what does the poet tell the reader not to be afraid of?
(a) Himself.
(b) The ghosts in the house.
(c) The butterfly.
(d) The dark.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Runt decide at the end of the story?

2. What do the two of them do?

3. How did the narrator first meet the detective?

4. Why are the first two ghost stories unsatisfying?

5. When they get to the circus, why is Miss Finch unimpressed?

Short Essay Questions

1. Is Amelia a sympathetic character?

2. Describe the character of Mr. Alice.

3. Describe the character of Miss Finch.

4. Describe how the detective solves the mystery in 'A Study in Emerald.'

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

6. What do you think the three older boys in the ghost story are?

7. Do you think the gypsy woman in 'The Flints of Memory Lane' is a ghost? Did the boy imagine it all?

8. In 'Bitter Grounds' why does the man become a demon?

9. What do the characters in 'Strange Little Girls' have in common?

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

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