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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When he returns to the car and finds the man gone, what does the narrator find?
(a) The man's clothes, with no sign of their owner.
(b) The typescript of his paper and a hotel reservation in New Orleans.
(c) A gun and a wad of money.
(d) The typescript of his paper and a book about zombies.

3. In 'Keepsakes and Treasures,' who admitted the narrator's mother into an insane asylum?
(a) Mr. Alice.
(b) The narrator.
(c) Her own father.
(d) Her own grandfather.

4. Why did she come to this house instead?
(a) She was thrown out of Lord Falconmere's house and had nowhere else to go.
(b) The coach driver pushed her from the coach in the woods and drove away without her.
(c) She lost her way and wandered in the woods, eventually seeing the house.
(d) She was sent a mysterious letter about her birthright, so decided to stop here on the way.

5. Why does Inspector Lestrade visit them?
(a) He is an old friend and has come for a chat.
(b) He wants the detective to investigate the murder of one of the German royal family.
(c) He wants the detective to join forces with him against the Old Ones.
(d) He wants the detective to find a criminal member of the resistance.

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

7. Why does the narrator kill the deputy head of the orphanage?
(a) He was one of the possibilities for the narrator's father.
(b) He liked to starve and torture the children.
(c) He sexually abused the children.
(d) He tried to send him to a new family he didn't want to go to.

8. Why is the young writer upset?
(a) He is trying to write horror but it is not scary enough.
(b) He is trying to write about reality, but he keeps parodying it.
(c) He doesn't want to be a writer and wishes he could be a baker instead.
(d) He is trying to write about himself, but for some reason keeps writing about Amelia.

9. Why does the narrator's passenger ask him to go back to the hotel?
(a) He forgot his presentation notes for his paper.
(b) He accidentally brought his room key with him.
(c) He forgot his wallet.
(d) He is sick of his company.

10. What do the two of them do?
(a) Explore and climb a tree.
(b) Play in the river.
(c) Play hide and seek in the farmhouse.
(d) Tell ghost stories.

11. What does the narrator do the next day?
(a) He goes in search of the woman from the bar.
(b) He presents the professor's paper.
(c) He digs up a grave in the graveyard and finds the body of his friend.
(d) He leaves New Orleans as quickly as he can.

12. How old is the narrator when Mr. Alice's people find him?
(a) Eight.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Seventeen.

13. What do they plan to do with Miss Finch?
(a) Go to a play, then out dancing.
(b) Go to the cinema, then bowling.
(c) Go shopping in London.
(d) Go to a circus show, then out for sushi.

14. In October's story, who first nicknames the boy Runt, and why?
(a) His brothers name him Runt, because he is younger, smaller and weaker than them.
(b) His parents name him Runt, because he is their least favorite child.
(c) He names himself Runt, to show that he doesn't care what others say about him.
(d) His teacher names him Runt after a character from a book who was small and weak.

15. In his note, why did the killer say that he murdered the German Old One?
(a) The Old Ones are planning to destroy mankind.
(b) The Old Ones are weak and deserve to die.
(c) The killer is an Old One who believes the Old Ones should not have relationships with humans.
(d) The Old Ones are evil and enjoy inflicting suffering.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the third play in the trio that the detective takes the narrator to?

2. In New Orleans, who does the narrator and another professor meet in a bar?

3. In 'The Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch' what are the professions of Jane, Jonathon, and the narrator?

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

5. Who suddenly turns up in the young writer's house?

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