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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the bottle of orange juice located in "Morning Deliveries"?
(a) In the spider infested basement.
(b) In the refrigerator.
(c) On the front stoop.
(d) Behind the deadly nightshade.

2. What is Thorpe's story about?
(a) Going crazy.
(b) Intrigue.
(c) Losing everything you love.
(d) Murder.

3. How did Henry win the poker game?
(a) Bluffing.
(b) Cheating.
(c) He had a partner placed strategically in the room.
(d) He seemed to know the cards before they were drawn.

4. What happens to McCutchson?
(a) He is strangled by Otto.
(b) He is killed in a traffic accident.
(c) He is killed beneath his truck.
(d) He dies of a fever.

5. Why can't George invoke the name given to him by Aunt Flo?
(a) Gramma has him by the throat.
(b) He has a piece of food wedged in his windpipe.
(c) He has lost his voice.
(d) He forgets the name.

6. As Bobby is looking over the car, what thought distracts him?
(a) His wife is waiting with supper.
(b) He does not like Leo in the least.
(c) The milkman left a spider at his door.
(d) Rocky is not really his friend.

7. In "The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet," what does the party group begin to discuss?
(a) One hit wonders.
(b) Publications deserving awards.
(c) Successful writers who have gone mad or committed suicide.
(d) Edgar Allen Poe.

8. What lie does Henry tell Thorpe?
(a) That Henry has a Fornit of his own.
(b) That the FBI was looking into Thorpe's Fornit.
(c) That Fornits are actually aliens.
(d) That Henry had seen a Fornit at the zoo.

9. What does the milkman place on the empty chocolate milk container at the McCarthy home?
(a) A tarantula.
(b) A brown recluse.
(c) A scorpion.
(d) A black widow.

10. What does the milkman discover at the house with the cancellation note?
(a) A poisonous snake he didn't have in his collection.
(b) A young girl wandering alone.
(c) A murder.
(d) A human foot.

11. What other item does the milkman add to his delivery?
(a) Acid gel.
(b) Cyanide gas.
(c) All of the answers are correct.
(d) Belladonna.

12. Who is giving Nona a hard time when the narrator meets her?
(a) Her ex boyfriend.
(b) Four truckers.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her pimp.

13. What emotion does George feel when it comes to Gramma?
(a) Affection.
(b) Loathing.
(c) Fear.
(d) Love.

14. What happens when George tries to cover Gramma with a sheet?
(a) She begins babbling insanely.
(b) She lets out a loud gasp.
(c) She grabs his wrist.
(d) She sits up.

15. Where is the narrator in "Nona" sitting as he considers events in his life?
(a) At home with his wife and two children.
(b) In his masion.
(c) In a spaceship.
(d) In a jail cell.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what room of the museum is the looking glass kept?

2. What adjective is used to describe the looking glass in "The Reaper's Image"?

3. Shapiro gets the sense that the sands have what?

4. What does Richard Pine do after he breaks his ankle?

5. How does Davidson feel about the way Henry left?

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