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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 reason does Becky give for breaking up with the narrator?
(a) He is no fun anymore.
(b) She doesn't want to be a home wrecker.
(c) He doesn't love her enough.
(d) He doesn't get on with her friends.

2. In 'Fifteen Painted Cards...' what does the man in 'The Fool' want?
(a) To kiss a vampire.
(b) To talk to a vampire.
(c) To be a vampire.
(d) To kill a vampire.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does she describe the world?

2. In 'Pages from a Journal...' for whom is the narrator searching?

3. When Scarlet calls the narrator, what does she tell him/her?

4. What has next door's cat left on the professor's doormat?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Are the boys at the party in any danger?

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

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

6. What might the plasticine gargoyle symbolize?

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

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

9. What is the 'problem of Susan'?

10. Why does Becky break up with the narrator?

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