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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Problem of Susan, and Instructions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first story about?
(a) A boy who plays a cello very badly, and one day manages to inexplicably play fantastic music on it, but breaks it the next day and can never play it properly again.
(b) A chef who changes a customer's order to suit the wine, but the customer ends up having an allergy to the food.
(c) A woman who falls in love with a man at an airport by looking at the x-ray of his luggage.
(d) A little boy who is dared by some other boys to knock on the door of a strange playhouse. The playhouse traps the other boys and they are never seen again.

2. What does the woman from the bar say happened to a young man in New Orleans?
(a) He woke up one day to find that his identity had been stolen.
(b) He got involved with bad men and was killed and tuned into a zombie.
(c) He fell in love with a voodoo priestess who cursed him and now uses him as a slave.
(d) He was drugged with zombie powder and craved it until he became little more than a zombie himself.

3. What kind of animal joins Miss Finch and then circles around the circus audience?
(a) Aepyornis.
(b) Mammoths.
(c) Pygmy elephants.
(d) Smilodons.

4. What is weird about Miss Finch in the ninth room?
(a) She seems to be blind.
(b) Her hair and eyes have changed color.
(c) She does not remember who they are.
(d) She is wearing a jungle costume.

5. After following the path away from the river, what does Runt come to?
(a) A graveyard.
(b) A police station.
(c) A friendly looking farmhouse with lights on inside.
(d) A creepy-looking abandoned farmhouse.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does the narrator meet at a motel, and offer to give a ride to?

2. When he returns to the car and finds the man gone, what does the narrator find?

3. What does Greta say makes her angry?

4. What is in the eighth room of the circus?

5. How did the professor's parents, brothers, and sister die?

(see the answer key)

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