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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 'Temperance' what does the vampire say Chinese vampires drink instead of blood?
(a) Tears.
(b) Spinal fluid.
(c) V8.
(d) Synthetic blood.

2. In 'The Star,' where does the vampire say that vampires came from originally?
(a) The sun.
(b) The star constellation Ares.
(c) The star constellation Draco.
(d) A very distant planet.

3. What does the narrator mix into the plasticine as he creates his model?
(a) Wine.
(b) His tears.
(c) Beer.
(d) Semen.

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

5. In 'Harlequin Valentine' what does Harlequin pin on Missy's front door?
(a) A card.
(b) A red and black striped ribbon.
(c) His heart.
(d) A charcoal drawing of Missy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Harlequin refer to Missy?

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

3. What is remarkable about the narrator of 'Goliath'?

4. What does Miss Corvier ask Eddie to bring her?

5. What does Greta say makes her angry?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Missy get the better of Harlequin?

3. Why are the machines interested in the narrator?

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

5. Why does Becky break up with the narrator?

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

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

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

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

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

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