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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 Becky make out of plasticine?
(a) Doll faces.
(b) Gargoyles.
(c) Little animals.
(d) Flowers.

2. Why is the narrator pulled out of the Matrix?
(a) To help them understand the human mind.
(b) To help stop the rebels.
(c) He is too aware of the machines' control.
(d) To pilot a space fighter ship.

3. What does the third stage of the disease affect?
(a) The lungs.
(b) Speech and thought.
(c) Strength.
(d) Physicality.

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

5. 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 killed the coach maker and his wife.
(c) They think it is a changeling.
(d) They think it is cursed.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do the boys know Alison?

3. What does Greta say makes her angry?

4. What does Missy do next?

5. When Scarlet calls the narrator, what does she tell him/her?

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

3. What is the 'problem of Susan'?

4. Describe the character of Harlequin.

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

6. Why does Becky break up with the narrator?

7. Do you think Miss Corvier is supernatural or a normal but disturbed human?

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

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

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

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