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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. Whom does Disease Maker's Croup affect?
(a) People with weakened immune systems.
(b) People who want time off work.
(c) Hypochondriacs.
(d) People who catalogue diseases.

2. Where is the author the second time reality seems to fade?
(a) At work.
(b) In bed.
(c) On the tube.
(d) In his car.

3. When the author suddenly finds himself back in the 70s, what happens?
(a) He is recruited by the RAF.
(b) Aliens attack.
(c) The men in black coats try to kill him.
(d) He finds himself married with kids.

4. What is pitiable about sufferers?
(a) They are in a great deal of pain.
(b) They think that the whole world is against them.
(c) They begin to lose their memories.
(d) They have frequent bursts of sense amid the nonsense.

5. What now happens to Missy and Harlequin?
(a) They switch roles.
(b) They fall in love.
(c) They disappear.
(d) They fight.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the professor's parents, brothers, and sister die?

2. How do the boys know Alison?

3. What does Becky make out of plasticine?

4. What does Miss Corvier give Eddie Barrow as a present?

5. Now that Missy can see Harlequin, what does she tell him to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do you think happened to Becky at the end of the story?

2. Why does Triolet say that she is a poem?

3. Why does Becky break up with the narrator?

4. What might the plasticine gargoyle symbolize?

5. Describe the narrator's attempts to find Scarlet in 'Pages from a Journal...'

6. In what ways is 'In The End' a reversal of the creation story in Genesis?

7. Why does the father in 'Locks' feel that we owe it to ourselves to tell each other stories?

8. Describe the character of Harlequin.

9. Describe how the disease progresses in Disease Maker's Croup.

10. Based on the instructions given in the poem 'Instructions,' what kind of morals are needed to survive fairyland?

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