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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Death Notebooks.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What ability is given to the person who eats a magical snake in "The White Snake"?
(a) The ability to transform into a white snake.
(b) The ability to communicate with animals.
(c) The ability to speak to snakes.
(d) The ability to transform others into a white snake.

2. "Hansel and Gretel" is about whose wild obsession?
(a) Gretel's.
(b) A mother's.
(c) Hansel's.
(d) A witch's.

3. What is the title of the poem "Rats Live On No Evil Star" based on?
(a) A nursery rhyme.
(b) A fragment of a dream.
(c) A palindrome.
(d) A nonsensical phrase her daughter said.

4. How many sections is "The Death Baby" divided into?
(a) Four.
(b) Six.
(c) Ten.
(d) Five.

5. What is the focus of the author's version of "Red Riding Hood"?
(a) The grandmother.
(b) The improbability of the outcome.
(c) The wolf.
(d) The relationship between Red Riding Hood and the woodsman.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is marriage portrayed in "Man and Wife"?

2. Where does the title for the first poem in Live or Die come from?

3. What is the author's relationship with the subject of "Somewhere in Africa"?

4. Whose death does the author recount in "The Death Baby"?

5. Who interferes with the speaker's prayers in "Praying on a 707"?

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