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

2. In 'Justice,' why have the townsfolk condemned a baby to die?
(a) They think it is the child of a vampire.
(b) They think it is a changeling.
(c) They think it is cursed.
(d) They think it killed the coach maker and his wife.

3. Where does the narrator of 'Feeders and Eaters' meet an old acquaintance?
(a) A cheap hotel.
(b) A fancy restaurant.
(c) An all-night cafe.
(d) A park.

4. When Scarlet calls the narrator, what does she tell him/her?
(a) To stop searching for her.
(b) Where to find her.
(c) She is lost.
(d) The narrator is loved.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In 'The Chariot,' what do the people of Earth do to ensure that they are protected from the race of super humans they have genetically created?

2. What does Susan dream about?

3. What has next door's cat left on the professor's doormat?

4. What has happened to her people?

5. In the poem 'Instructions' what is it important to always trust?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Based on this story, how do you think the author feels about the problem of Susan?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Are the boys at the party in any danger?

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