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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 Eddie do?
(a) He runs away.
(b) He kills the cat.
(c) He kills Miss Corvier.
(d) He takes the cat to Miss Corvier to eat.

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

3. What mild deformity does the girl have?
(a) She only has three fingers on her right hand.
(b) She has six toes on her left foot.
(c) Her little finger splits into two fingertips.
(d) She has one green eye and one blue.

4. How does she describe the world?
(a) As a rose.
(b) As an eyesore.
(c) As a wicked place.
(d) As a jewel.

5. What children does the narrator have?
(a) A boy and a younger girl.
(b) Twin boys.
(c) Twin girls.
(d) Three boys, aged two, five and six.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the man and woman called?

2. How does the narrator know Vic?

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

4. In 'The Lovers' what do the townsfolk find when they open up the woman's coffin?

5. Where is the author the second time reality seems to fade?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the character of Harlequin.

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

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

4. What kind of beings are Wain's Wain and the second girl whom Enn talks to?

5. Why do you think Eddie Barrow lets himself be eaten in 'Feeders and Eaters'? Does he have a choice?

6. In the story 'Goliath,' what is real and what is not?

7. Is the professor the same person as Susan from the Narnia books?

8. How does Missy get the better of Harlequin?

9. Is 'In the End' a hopeful story or a sad one?

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

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