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

2. What does the serpent do with it?
(a) Gives it to God.
(b) Unlocks the gate.
(c) Hangs it on a tree.
(d) Places it in a box.

3. 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 die.
(d) He will become incoherent.

4. How old is Becky and how old is the narrator when he begins seeing her behind his wife's back?
(a) She is twenty, and he is twenty-seven.
(b) She is thirty, and he is nineteen.
(c) She is eighteen, and he is thirty.
(d) She is twenty-four, and he is thirty.

5. In 'My Life' what does the poet claim caused the death of his wife?
(a) A haunted dishwasher caused her to liquefy.
(b) A bear killed her after she went insane and believed she was a bear cub.
(c) Lavatorial waste falling from a plane fell on her head.
(d) Aliens killed her, but this was hushed up by the government.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Disease Maker's Croup affect?

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

3. What does Miss Corvier give Eddie Barrow as a present?

4. Where does Missy take Harlequin's gift?

5. What does Missy do next?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What different kinds of vampires are there in 'Fifteen Painted Cards from a Vampire Tarot'?

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

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

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

7. Describe the character of Harlequin.

8. Why does Becky break up with the narrator?

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

10. How does Missy get the better of Harlequin?

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