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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 lady hanging.
(c) A pale man walking away.
(d) A child looking out.

2. What does the person find after waking in "The Beckoning Hands"?
(a) A trapdoor with a skeleton occupying its sealed room below.
(b) Books.
(c) A gun and bloody cloth.
(d) A mysterious note.

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

4. Who comes to stay at the mansion in "The Beckoning Hands"?
(a) The old lady who cursed the pirate and his family.
(b) A new owner.
(c) A man who wants to investigate the apparition.
(d) An old couple.

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

6. What are the Outer Banks like when Joe and Josephine Bell live?
(a) Virtually unpopulated.
(b) Very busy.
(c) Moderately busy.
(d) Mainly inhabited by fisherman.

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

8. In "The Core Point Ghosts" what does the girl do as a result of her emotions?
(a) Hurts herself and the baby.
(b) Kills herself.
(c) Leaves town.
(d) Murders her baby.

9. What do Joe and Josephine Bell like to spend their time doing?
(a) Walk on the shore of the Outer Banks.
(b) Traveling up and down the Outer Banks.
(c) Researching the Outer Banks.
(d) Planting flowers along the Outer Banks.

10. What does the person realize upon waking up in "The Beckoning Hands"?
(a) That he doesn't know where he is.
(b) That the house is haunted.
(c) That he has found the missing bride, Caroline.
(d) That he needs to leave the house.

11. What do people think the mysterious lights of Maco are?
(a) Joe looking for his head.
(b) Reflections of other lights.
(c) Joe protecting the tracks.
(d) A ghost.

12. What happens to Joe?
(a) His body flies into the air and his head is decapitated.
(b) He breaks both of his legs.
(c) He breaks his neck and dies.
(d) He is crushed on impact of the train's collision.

13. What happens to Josephine?
(a) She leaves Joe.
(b) She gets sick and dies.
(c) She gets ill and loses her ability to speak.
(d) She goes blind.

14. Which of the following did Frenchy not have aboard the Queen of Sounds?
(a) A movie theatre.
(b) Dancing.
(c) Piano player for 2.
(d) Gambling.

15. What side of the war is Donald on?
(a) England's.
(b) Britain's.
(c) Scotland's.
(d) Ireland's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Joe's job?

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

3. What is the name of the family Donald marries into?

4. What was Frenchy's role in the Civil War from "The Queen of Sounds"?

5. How does the pirate die?

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