Test Your Knowledge On The Landlady Story!
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Do you want to test your The Landlady story knowledge? Let's play this interesting story quiz and prove yourself!
- 1.1. When Billy arrives in Bath, he —
- A.
does not have a job
- B.
Does not have a place to stay
- C.
Has plenty of money
- D.
Looks for entertainment
- 2.
- A.
He sees a dachshund lying in front of the fireplace.
- B.
He imagines they serve watery cabbage.
- C.
He sees the landlady drinking a cup of tea
- D.
He doesn’t see a greedy landlady.
- 3.
- A.
He is transfixed by the sign that says “Bed and Breakfast.”
- B.
The landlady opens the door and invites him in.
- C.
A passerby tells him the Bell and Dragon isn’t nice
- D.
He is too tired to keep walking.
- 4.4. The landlady explains that there are no other guests because —
- A.
Of the war
- B.
There is only one room available
- C.
She is very particular and choosy
- D.
She can’t stand too much commotion
- 5.5. At first, Billy thinks that the landlady is —
- A.
very suspicious
- B.
slightly dotty and off her rocker
- C.
Lots of fun
- D.
Old and feeble
- 6.
- A.
He knows each of the previous guests.
- B.
All of the names on the guest list are men.
- C.
He is sure he has read the names in the newspaper.
- D.
He thinks that the guests were famous politicians.
- 7.7. How does the landlady distract Billy when he has almost figuredout who Christopher Mulholland is
- A.
By asking Billy about his job
- B.
By pointing out her stuffed animals
- C.
By flirting with Billy
- D.
By serving him tea with milk and sugar
- 8.
- A.
He would have killed the landlady
- B.
He would not have drunk the tea.
- C.
He would have noticed the stuffed animals sooner.
- D.
He would have called the police.
- 9.9. What do you think makes Billy’s tea taste strange?
- A.
Bitter almonds
- B.
Pickled walnuts
- C.
Poison
- D.
New leather
- 10.
- A.
That both Billy and Mulholland were seventeen
- B.
Mulholland and Temple haven’t left the bed and breakfast
- C.
Mulholland also liked his tea
- D.
That she stuffed her pets
- 11.
- A.
The suspense in a story
- B.
Giving away a story’s ending
- C.
Clues that hint at what happened before the story began
- D.
Clues that hint at what will happen later in the story
- 12.
- A.
"The air was deadly cold and the wind was like a flat blade of ice . . . .”
- B.
“There were no shops on this wide street that he was walking along . . . .”
- C.
"Each word [of the sign] was like a large black eye staring at him through the glass . . . .”
- D.
“There wasn’t a blemish on his [Mulholland’s] body . . . . His skin was just like a baby’s.”
- 13.13. The part of the story that describes Christopher Mulholland is the —
- A.
subplot
- B.
resolution
- C.
Climax
- D.
Conflict
- 14.
- A.
The readers do not know what happens to Billy.
- B.
The landlady comforts Billy with a smile.
- C.
Readers can only assume that Billy will meet the same fate as Temple and Mulholland.
- D.
Readers find out that the landlady is an insane killer.
- 15.
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