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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 happens the day after the narrator plays beautiful music on the instrument?
(a) He moves school, and the new school does not give lessons in that instrument.
(b) He gives up playing, as he knows he will never play like that again.
(c) The instrument disappears.
(d) He falls and breaks the instrument.

2. What does the narrator do the next day?
(a) He digs up a grave in the graveyard and finds the body of his friend.
(b) He presents the professor's paper.
(c) He goes in search of the woman from the bar.
(d) He leaves New Orleans as quickly as he can.

3. What is the Swallows?
(a) A playhouse.
(b) A river.
(c) A den that the three boys built from tree branches.
(d) A manor house.

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 throws rocks in it.
(b) He lies down and falls asleep.
(c) He urinates in it.
(d) He vandalizes it.

5. In 'The Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch' what are the professions of Jane, Jonathon, and the narrator?
(a) A journalist, a television presenter, and a fantasy author.
(b) A circus performer, a ringmaster, and a fantasy author.
(c) A housewife, an accountant, and a fantasy author.
(d) An actress, a film producer, and a fantasy author.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when the three older boys go inside?

2. What does the old man tell them his father used the cages for?

3. When he returns to the car and finds the man gone, what does the narrator find?

4. Who are the other three men at the club on the night they tell each other ghost stories?

5. What bad habits does the detective warn the narrator that he has?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In 'Keepsakes and Treasures' how does the narrator's background explain the person he is today?

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

4. In your opinion, what was Miss Finch's wish? Was it granted by the cabinet?

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

6. In the poem 'The Hidden Chamber,' is there anything that is actually hidden?

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

8. In what ways could 'Good Boys Deserve Favors' be considered a coming of age story?

9. In the last story in 'Strange Little Girls,' two alternate stories are offered about a woman who lived during the war. Which one offers the happier ending?

10. Is Amelia a sympathetic character?

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