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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 say being left behind meant for her?
(a) She was finally free to do what she wanted.
(b) She had to identify the bodies.
(c) She could never be happy again.
(d) She had a lucky escape.

2. What does Harlequin's costume look like?
(a) It is striped red and black.
(b) It is covered in purple and white crosses.
(c) It is covered in red and black diamonds.
(d) It is striped purple and white.

3. What happens to the narrator after he saves the Earth?
(a) The machines promise him power and money.
(b) The machines try to kill him.
(c) The machines leave him to die in his spacecraft.
(d) The machines make him part machine too.

4. What will eventually happen to the sufferer?
(a) He will go into a coma.
(b) He will be paralyzed from the waist down.
(c) He will become incoherent.
(d) He will die.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Harlequin refer to Missy?

2. What does Susan dream about?

3. In 'In The End,' what does the Lord give to mankind in the end?

4. What does Becky make out of plasticine?

5. What disguise does Harlequin take in order to speak to Missy?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Do the machines feel emotion?

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

5. What kind of beings are Wain's Wain and the second girl whom Enn talks to?

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

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

8. Why does Becky break up with the narrator?

9. How does Missy get the better of Harlequin?

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

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