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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. In 'Justice,' why have the townsfolk condemned a baby to die?

2. When Eddie checks to see what is making a horrible howling noise, what does he find?

3. What do the man and woman then do?

4. What does Missy do next?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Missy get the better of Harlequin?

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

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

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

7. What is the 'problem of Susan'?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Discuss the theme of identity in 'October in the Chair,' 'The Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch,' 'Strange Little Girls,' and 'Harlequin Valentine.'

Essay Topic 3

What is the meaning of the playhouse in the story 'Closing Time?' Is it evil? Does it represent or symbolize anything?

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