"The Landlady" Quiz

Billy Weaver came to Bath from London on an assignment for his job.

• True

• False

The name of the Landlady's bed and breakfast was The Bell and Dragon.

• True

• False

The Landlady's previous guests can be found on the fourth floor of the bed and breakfast.

• True

• False

The Landlady convinced Billy to stay by using her mysterious powers even though her bed and breakfast was priced more than pub up the road.

• True

• False

Why did the landlady want Billy to sign the guest book?

• It was the law, and the landlady was afraid to break the law.

• She collected signatures of attractive young men.

• She didn’t want to forget his name after he was dead.

• She needed the signature for her tax records.

Which of the following is NOT true about the names in the guest book?

• Only two guests had ever signed the book.

• The people who had signed the book were all relatives.

• The names seemed familiar to Billy—he seemed to remember seeing them in a newspaper headline.

• The last entry was over two years old.

What did Billy Weaver have in common with Christopher Mulholland?

• They were the same age—seventeen.

• They both went to the same school.

• They both worked in the same profession.

• They looked exactly alike—as if they were twins.

What stuffed “pets” does the landlady have in her home?

• A collection of dogs

• A bird and a cat

• A dog that slept by the fire and a fish that was mounted on the wall

• A parrot, a dachshund, and two young men

What hint did we get at the end of the story that the tea Billy was drinking had been poisoned?

• The landlady told him that he would be dead by morning.

• Billy could feel the poison’s effects already killing him.

• The tea tasted faintly like bitter almonds, the taste of potassium cyanide.

• Billy noticed a mysterious packet of white powder under his teacup.

In the end of the story, we find out that the landlady is a homicidal cannibal who eats her murder victims

• True

• False