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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, The Night the Ghost Got In.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Aunt Sarah think the burglar will blow into her room?
(a) Cigar smoke.
(b) Helium.
(c) Chloroform.
(d) Mephane.

2. What does Thurber say he is fresh from at 1.15 am?
(a) A shower.
(b) A walk.
(c) A bath.
(d) A run.

3. Why does Aunt Melissa think she is destined to die on South High Street?
(a) She had a car accident there.
(b) She saw a dead body there.
(c) She was born there.
(d) She had a stroke there.

4. Why do the family have to push start the car?
(a) It is beyond cranking.
(b) It can't make it up hills.
(c) It runs out of petrol.
(d) It has no engine.

5. How does Thurber describe the stairs leading to the attic?
(a) Wide and epic.
(b) Spiralling and scary.
(c) Narrow and twisting.
(d) Cold and dark.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of grandfather's dead brother?

2. What enters Thurber's house on 17. November, 1915?

3. What does Thurber have to talk Mother out of doing?

4. Who does Thurber think is downstairs?

5. What does Thurber say Old Aunt Melissa Beal can whistle like?

(see the answer key)

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