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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was Amelia on her way to Lord Falconmere's house?
(a) To work as a cook in his kitchen.
(b) To work as a governess for his children.
(c) To claim her birthright.
(d) To beg him to marry her.

2. What does Amelia promise them in return for not killing her?
(a) Brides.
(b) The deeds to the house.
(c) Chocolate.
(d) A lock of her hair.

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

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

5. In 'Strange Little Girls' in the story 'Raining Blood,' what two options are given to the reader?
(a) The subject of the story either survived the war or was killed by the Gestapo.
(b) to go through with her pregnancy or got an abortion.
(c) The subject of the story either married her baby's father or went to college and became a lawyer.
(d) The subject of the story was either killed by her boyfriend, or rescued by her father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator do the next day?

2. In October's story, who first nicknames the boy Runt, and why?

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

4. When he returns to the car and finds the man gone, what does the narrator find?

5. In 'October in the Chair,' who tells the first story?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the steps that lead up to the narrator taking the professor's identity.

2. Describe the character of Mr. Alice.

3. Why do you think the double bass allows him to play beautiful music this one time?

4. Why does the poet cast aside all his possessions and his old life in the poem 'Going Wodwo'?

5. What do you think the three older boys in the ghost story are?

6. Why does the narrator see a Haitian coffee girl at the end of the story?

7. What do the characters in 'Strange Little Girls' have in common?

8. In 'Bitter Grounds' why does the man become a demon?

9. Describe the character of Miss Finch.

10. Describe how the detective solves the mystery in 'A Study in Emerald.'

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