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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Diseasemaker's Croup, and In The End.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has next door's cat left on the professor's doormat?
(a) Cat vomit.
(b) Today's newspaper.
(c) The head and paw of a mouse.
(d) A dead sparrow.

2. Who suggests that the young man should try writing fantasy instead?
(a) His older brother.
(b) Amelia.
(c) A raven.
(d) The butler.

3. What bad habits does the detective warn the narrator that he has?
(a) He snores and tests poisons on the dog.
(b) He is very messy and is visited at all hours by strange people.
(c) He snores and uses the mantelpiece for target practice.
(d) He is very messy and likes to practice firing his gun at night.

4. What is pitiable about sufferers?
(a) They begin to lose their memories.
(b) They have frequent bursts of sense amid the nonsense.
(c) They think that the whole world is against them.
(d) They are in a great deal of pain.

5. At a cafe, how does the narrator identify himself?
(a) As a zombie.
(b) As a nobody.
(c) As a famous actor.
(d) As a professor.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 'Keepsakes and Treasures,' who admitted the narrator's mother into an insane asylum?

2. In the third ghost story, what are the three older boys looking at when the narrator sees them on his way home from school?

3. When they get to the circus, why is Miss Finch unimpressed?

4. In 'Other People' what is the worst form of torture that the demon inflicts on the man?

5. In 'The Star,' where does the vampire say that vampires came from originally?

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