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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Bitter Grounds, and Other People.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the old man tell them his father used the cages for?
(a) To lock up the dogs he used for hunting.
(b) To keep strange animals in.
(c) To lock up people who trespassed on the land.
(d) To lock up the boys when they were naughty.

2. What is the name of the club in the story 'Closing Time'?
(a) The Diogenes.
(b) The Sophocles.
(c) The Lion.
(d) The White Hart.

3. Whom does the detective suspect of committing the murder, and why?
(a) Vernet and his friend the 'Limping Doctor.'
(b) Vernet.
(c) Prince Albert.
(d) Inspector Lestrade.

4. What is this person traveling to present a paper on?
(a) Metaphor in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
(b) Haitian coffee girls.
(c) Breakthroughs in dental hygiene.
(d) Death and the afterlife in different cultures.

5. When they find a beautiful garden with a stream that looks like a fairy grotto, what does one of the boys do?
(a) He urinates in it.
(b) He lies down and falls asleep.
(c) He throws rocks in it.
(d) He vandalizes it.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the poem 'Going Wodwo' why does the narrator give up his shirt, book, coat, and life?

2. In 'Bitter Grounds' what is the narrator doing when he decides to just keep driving and run away from his old life?

3. What does the old man tell Amelia she will find in the house?

4. How does the detective know that the narrator was in Afghanistan?

5. Who is trying to attack Amelia as she hides in the woodcutter's cottage?

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