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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Early Essays.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What curse is put on Yvette in "The Spell"?
(a) She can never bear children.
(b) She will be twelve years old forever.
(c) She is cursed to turn into a wolf at night.
(d) She is cursed to be half woman, half swan.

2. What is Kaiser's role in this story?
(a) He is a man seeking revenge on Flossie.
(b) He is a Word's older half-brother.
(c) He is a private detective hired to help Word with a blackmailer.
(d) He is just a guy off the street.

3. What type of love is being discussed in "On Love"?
(a) Friendship love.
(b) Love of animals.
(c) Romantic love.
(d) Brotherly love.

4. Who was Aristonidis?
(a) The man who invented the seance.
(b) Dr. Twelge's cat.
(c) A well-known photographer.
(d) A 16th century count.

5. What does Woody's brother use to beat him over the head?
(a) A small child.
(b) A rubber chicken.
(c) A dinosaur bone.
(d) A pig bladder.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hedvig offer to do at the end of "I Prefer to Yodel"?

2. Who is the only individual that knows the entire plan to catch the strangler?

3. In which essay does Allen consider the appropriateness of behaviors based on one's stage of life?

4. What does Kaiser find the girls studying when he arrives at Flossie's call-girl center of operations?

5. What does the ghost of Mr. Dubbs's brother do to Mrs. Dubbs?

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