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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the pirate after he commits his kidnapping?
(a) He dies.
(b) He gets very ill.
(c) He is blessed.
(d) He and his family are cursed by the old woman.

2. What do children begin to see the following New Year's in the window at the mansion?
(a) A pale woman beckoning them with her delicate hands.
(b) A pale man walking away.
(c) A child looking out.
(d) A lady hanging.

3. What is the mansion from "The Beckoning Hands" connected to?
(a) The road.
(b) The shore.
(c) The town's hall.
(d) Nothing.

4. What do the police never find as a result of the accident?
(a) Joe's body.
(b) The reason the caboose detached.
(c) The other conductor's body.
(d) Joe's head.

5. What color is the flower that Joe sees and begins to plant along the Outer Banks?
(a) Blue-green.
(b) Yellow-red.
(c) Yellow-orange.
(d) Pinkish-red.

6. What happens to the train Joe is conductor of?
(a) It is almost hit by the oncoming train.
(b) It is moved to another track.
(c) It reconnects to its train.
(d) It is hit and derailed.

7. What do the Mattamuskeet's decide they must do in order to be blessed with rain?
(a) Pray constantly.
(b) Meditate quietly.
(c) Move elsewhere.
(d) Sacrifice one of their people.

8. What does the Maco Station change after Joe's accident?
(a) Their trains.
(b) Their lights to colored ones.
(c) Their tracks.
(d) Their conductor's light exertion.

9. What is the fountain of mercy exactly?
(a) Where freshwater currents converge in the ocean's bottom.
(b) A fountain that grants mercy.
(c) Where freshwater currents magically appeared.
(d) A delicious area in the ocean that contains less salty water.

10. In "The Beckoning Hands" what does the person dream of their first night in the mansion?
(a) A suspicious murder.
(b) Caroline tripping and falling in a trap door.
(c) Beckoning hands.
(d) A skeleton trapped.

11. What does Joe use to try and make his whereabouts known?
(a) His lantern.
(b) Smoke.
(c) A flashing light.
(d) His screams.

12. What war has just ended in "The Mysterious Maco Lights"?
(a) World War I.
(b) The French Revolution.
(c) The Civil War.
(d) The Revolutionary War.

13. Where do Alan and his grandparents travel to Jamestown from?
(a) Boston.
(b) Hatteras Island.
(c) Greensboro.
(d) Charleston.

14. Who does Frenchy begin to attempt to contact obsessively?
(a) Satan.
(b) God.
(c) His late parents.
(d) His late wife.

15. In "The Beckoning Hands" who does the pirate want to live with?
(a) The old lady.
(b) His wife.
(c) His daughter.
(d) His wife and daughter, Caroline.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alan realize after adhering to Ann's prompts?

2. What river does the old mansion in "The Beckoning Hands" reside next to?

3. What does Donald bleed all over?

4. What does the person find after waking in "The Beckoning Hands"?

5. What do Caroline and her mother hold in the mansion year's after the pirate's death?

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