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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. What has happened to her people?
(a) Their planet died.
(b) They killed themselves.
(c) They left in search of truth on other worlds.
(d) They were attacked by aliens.

2. What children does the narrator have?
(a) A boy and a younger girl.
(b) Three boys, aged two, five and six.
(c) Twin girls.
(d) Twin boys.

3. Why does the narrator not want to go to the party?
(a) He is not feeling well.
(b) He hates loud music.
(c) He thinks parties are stupid.
(d) He is too shy to talk to girls.

4. What does the narrator make out of plasticine?
(a) A gargoyle.
(b) A heart.
(c) Becky's face.
(d) His own face.

5. In 'The Lovers' what do the townsfolk find when they open up the woman's coffin?
(a) The corpse is covered in blood.
(b) The corpse has disappeared.
(c) The corpse looks flushed and alive, with no decay.
(d) Her lover's body is now with her, and she is pregnant.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 'The Day the Saucers Came' what happens after the saucers come?

2. What does the third girl whom the narrator speaks to say that she is?

3. What are the man and woman called?

4. What does Harlequin's costume look like?

5. What does the narrator find in a blueberry bush?

Short Essay Questions

1. What different kinds of vampires are there in 'Fifteen Painted Cards from a Vampire Tarot'?

2. Based on this story, how do you think the author feels about the problem of Susan?

3. What might the plasticine gargoyle symbolize?

4. Are the boys at the party in any danger?

5. Based on the instructions given in the poem 'Instructions,' what kind of morals are needed to survive fairyland?

6. Why does Triolet say that she is a poem?

7. Based on the ideas explored in 'Fifteen Painted Cards from a Vampire Tarot' why do you think vampire stories are so popular?

8. Why do you think Eddie Barrow lets himself be eaten in 'Feeders and Eaters'? Does he have a choice?

9. Do you think Miss Corvier is supernatural or a normal but disturbed human?

10. Why does the father in 'Locks' feel that we owe it to ourselves to tell each other stories?

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