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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. What was written on the postcard that the narrator found?

2. Whom does Disease Maker's Croup affect?

3. How do the boys know Alison?

4. Now that Missy can see Harlequin, what does she tell him to do?

5. What does the third stage of the disease affect?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Becky break up with the narrator?

2. Describe the narrator's attempts to find Scarlet in 'Pages from a Journal...'

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

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

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

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

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

8. Do the machines feel emotion?

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

10. Describe the character of Harlequin.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the theme of evil and monsters in the poems and stories in this collection. Pay particular attention to the stories 'Keepsakes and Treasures,' 'How Do You Think it Feels?' and 'The Monarch of the Glen." Also, bring in any other stories and poems you like as well. What does the author have to say about evil and human nature? Do you agree with him?

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

How is fairyland represented in the stories and poems in this collection? What does the author have to say about magic?

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