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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through How Do You Think it Feels? and My Life.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when the three older boys go inside?
(a) The narrator runs away and never looks back.
(b) The playhouse disappears, taking them with it.
(c) There is the sound of an evil laugh on the wind.
(d) The door shuts behind them and they do not come out.

2. Why does the narrator not understand the jokes the other boys tell?
(a) They are speaking another language.
(b) He doesn't know the people they are talking about.
(c) He is too young for them.
(d) The jokes are about a playhouse he has never been to.

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

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

5. In 'Strange Little Girls' in the story 'Bonnie's Mother,' what has happened to Bonnie's mother?
(a) She has been killed.
(b) She has lost her baby in childbirth.
(c) She has been arrested.
(d) She has left her husband.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are the other three men at the club on the night they tell each other ghost stories?

2. Why can the narrator not return to fairyland?

3. What is this person traveling to present a paper on?

4. What is the Swallows?

5. In 'My Life' what does the poet claim caused the death of his wife?

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