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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. 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?
(a) They make sure the superhumans are very short lived.
(b) They remove their location from the ship's computer.
(c) They create them with a weakness to iron and garlic.
(d) They forbid the superhumans from ever returning.

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

3. Whom does the father say his sympathy is with now?
(a) The princess' father.
(b) The woodcutter.
(c) The Wicked Queen.
(d) Father Bear.

4. In 'Pages from a Journal...' for whom is the narrator searching?
(a) God.
(b) Angel.
(c) An unnamed woman.
(d) Scarlet.

5. In Greta's dream, what does Aslan do to Susan and Lucy?
(a) He eats them.
(b) He takes them to heaven.
(c) He laughs at them.
(d) He sends them away.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 'Fifteen Painted Cards...' what does the man in 'The Fool' want?

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

3. Why is the narrator pulled out of the Matrix?

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

5. What children does the narrator have?

Short Essay Questions

1. Based on the ideas explored in 'Fifteen Painted Cards from a Vampire Tarot' why do you think vampire stories are so popular?

2. In 'My Life' is the poet telling the truth about anything he says?

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

4. How does Missy get the better of Harlequin?

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

6. Why are the machines interested in the narrator?

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

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

9. What might the plasticine gargoyle symbolize?

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

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