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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 Miss Corvier ask Eddie to bring her?
(a) Soup.
(b) Mushrooms.
(c) Raw meat.
(d) Coffee.

2. What does the third girl whom the narrator speaks to say that she is?
(a) An alien.
(b) A star.
(c) A poem.
(d) A university student.

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

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

5. What is remarkable about the narrator of 'Goliath'?
(a) He is very tall.
(b) He is a genius.
(c) He is very fat.
(d) He is very small.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eddie do?

2. What now happens to Missy and Harlequin?

3. Why is the narrator pulled out of the Matrix?

4. What decision does the narrator make?

5. What children does the narrator have?

Short Essay Questions

1. Based on the instructions given in the poem 'Instructions,' what kind of morals are needed to survive fairyland?

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

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

4. Describe the character of Harlequin.

5. Why does Becky break up with the narrator?

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

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

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

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

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

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