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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 has next door's cat left on the professor's doormat?
(a) Cat vomit.
(b) The head and paw of a mouse.
(c) Today's newspaper.
(d) A dead sparrow.

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

3. What children does the narrator have?
(a) A boy and a younger girl.
(b) Three boys, aged two, five and six.
(c) Twin boys.
(d) Twin girls.

4. In 'The Day the Saucers Came' what happens after the saucers come?
(a) The army arrive.
(b) A scientist tries to speak with them.
(c) Zombies rise.
(d) The four horsemen ride.

5. Where does the narrator meet Becky?
(a) At an art show in Switzerland.
(b) At a play in London.
(c) At a conference in Germany.
(d) At a party in Paris.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Becky make out of plasticine?

3. What does Missy do next?

4. What is the professor's book about?

5. What story is the father reading to his child in 'Locks'?

Short Essay Questions

1. In 'The Day the Saucer's Came' why does the person in the poem not notice such incredible events?

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

3. What do you think happened to Becky at the end of the story?

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

5. Why are the machines interested in the narrator?

6. Do the machines feel emotion?

7. Why does Becky break up with the narrator?

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

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

10. What might the plasticine gargoyle symbolize?

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