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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 professor not like about Victorian children's literature?
(a) The children in the stories are always boring.
(b) There are too many fairies in it.
(c) It is too moralizing.
(d) It is too unbelievable.

2. What does the professor dream about that night?
(a) Aslan.
(b) Her family.
(c) A new world.
(d) Mary Poppins.

3. What does Missy do next?
(a) She burns Harlequin's gift.
(b) She eats Harlequin's heart.
(c) She throws soda on Harlequin so that she can see where he is.
(d) She shares her food with Harlequin.

4. What reason does Becky give for breaking up with the narrator?
(a) He is no fun anymore.
(b) He doesn't get on with her friends.
(c) She doesn't want to be a home wrecker.
(d) He doesn't love her enough.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eddie do?

2. In her dream, what does Susan notice about the White Witch?

3. Whom does the father say his sympathy is with now?

4. Why does the person in the poem not notice the end of the world?

5. When Eddie checks to see what is making a horrible howling noise, what does he find?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Missy get the better of Harlequin?

2. Why are the machines interested in the narrator?

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

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

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

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

7. How does the father in 'Locks' interpret the story differently from his two-year-old child?

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

9. Describe the character of Harlequin.

10. What makes it clear that the author of 'Disease Maker's Croup' is suffering from the disease himself?

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