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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Miss Finch do?
(a) She is a surgeon.
(b) She is a biogeologist.
(c) She is a nuclear physicist.
(d) She is a criminal defense lawyer.

2. Who is trying to attack Amelia as she hides in the woodcutter's cottage?
(a) The writer.
(b) Lord Falconmere.
(c) Vampires.
(d) Ghoul-lords.

3. 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) The door shuts behind them and they do not come out.
(d) There is the sound of an evil laugh on the wind.

4. How does the killer know that the detective is on his track?
(a) He has seen the detective before, so he saw straight through his disguise.
(b) The detective pretended to be a pipe smoker, but his pipe was brand new and he had no tobacco.
(c) The detective pretended to be a fan, but forgot the name of the play.
(d) The detective pretended to be American but used a southern accent when he said he was from the north.

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

6. Who is in the car with Mr. Alice when he picks up the narrator at the station?
(a) A professor of ancient languages.
(b) An old Shahinai woman.
(c) A detective.
(d) The narrator's mother.

7. In 'Other People' what is the worst form of torture that the demon inflicts on the man?
(a) It puts him in an iron maiden.
(b) It pulls his fingernails out.
(c) It makes him relive everything bad that he has ever done.
(d) It forces him to watch the deaths of all the people he has ever loved.

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

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

10. 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 likes to practice firing his gun at night.
(c) He is very messy and is visited at all hours by strange people.
(d) He snores and uses the mantelpiece for target practice.

11. To whom are the detective and the narrator taken to see after they have looked at the crime scene?
(a) The police.
(b) The German ambassador.
(c) Queen Victoria.
(d) The resistance.

12. Why does Runt think he will be ok when he runs away from home?
(a) He plans to go find distant relatives and stay with them.
(b) He thinks the police will protect him if anyone tries to hurt him.
(c) He knows it will not be long before he is found and brought home, but wants to make a point.
(d) He has read fairy stories and knows that there are good people as well as monsters out there.

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

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

15. What is in the eighth room of the circus?
(a) The Sword of Truth.
(b) The Chest of Horrors.
(c) The Box of Wonders.
(d) The Cabinet of Wishes Fulfilled.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When the narrator kills his grandfather, what does he take from the body?

3. Whom does the detective suspect of committing the murder, and why?

4. What do the boys dare the narrator to do?

5. Where does a woman from the bar take the narrator?

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