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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator meet Becky?

2. What does the professor say being left behind meant for her?

3. What does Missy do next?

4. In 'My Life' what does the poet claim caused the death of his wife?

5. What does the narrator mix into the plasticine as he creates his model?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe the character of Harlequin.

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

5. What is the 'problem of Susan'?

6. Do the machines feel emotion?

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

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

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

10. What might the plasticine gargoyle symbolize?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the 'Problem of Susan'? How does the author attempt to address it? Do you think he has succeeded? What do you think the author's opinion of the Problem of Susan is? What is your opinion and why?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss lessons in the stories and poems in this collection. Which poems and stories contain a moral? What kinds of morals or lessons are taught, and are they repeated in different stories? Do you think this is the author's own view?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the theme of reality and fiction in these stories and poems. What are the differences between real life and stories? Why does the author keep returning to this theme?

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