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

2. In 'The Lovers' what do the townsfolk find when they open up the woman's coffin?
(a) The corpse has disappeared.
(b) The corpse looks flushed and alive, with no decay.
(c) The corpse is covered in blood.
(d) Her lover's body is now with her, and she is pregnant.

3. What is the professor's book about?
(a) Philosophy of religion and the existence of God.
(b) Why gossip is a sin.
(c) What happened to her in Narnia.
(d) Meaning in children's fiction.

4. Whom does Disease Maker's Croup affect?
(a) Hypochondriacs.
(b) People who want time off work.
(c) People with weakened immune systems.
(d) People who catalogue diseases.

5. The first time the world seems to dissolve away for the author, whom does he meet?
(a) A man wearing a black leather jumpsuit.
(b) A man wearing a long black trench coat.
(c) A man wearing a Santa hat.
(d) A man wearing horn-rimmed spectacles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator find in a blueberry bush?

2. After sleeping with Becky, what does the narrator see during the night, which may or may not be a dream?

3. Why has Greta come to see the professor?

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

5. From what does he ask the model to protect him?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Becky break up with the narrator?

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

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

4. Why are the machines interested in the narrator?

5. How does Missy get the better of Harlequin?

6. How does the father in 'Locks' interpret the story differently from his two-year-old child?

7. Do the machines feel emotion?

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

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

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

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