The Fair Haired Child Trivia Quiz

Answer: A bike

This story opens with a ritual being performed under a full moon. While someone reads from an old spellbook, they cast dirt over a humanlike figure covered in roots and dirt on the ground. Quickly, the dusty air is exhaled from the mouth of the figure and the ceremony ends.

The scene flashes to someone looking at pictures of a young girl, Tara, which are next to a bottle of chloroform. Tara, meanwhile, is in class at her all-girls preparatory school, drawing pictures during a lesson. When she is called up for a math question, she ends up getting laughed at by all the other girls, and she runs out of her classroom embarrassedly. Later that day, Tara took her bike and made her way home from school not knowing that a nearby car was watching her.

Inside, the driver puts on a pair of rubber gloves, starts up the vehicle, and turns on some classical music. Tara takes a quick trip into an ominously foggy forest with her bike and feels like she's being followed. She looks over her shoulder more than once before and after the car drives by behind her.

When she comes up to a clearing, the driver speeds up and drives into her, knocking her off her bicycle. When the driver gets out of the car, Tara exclaims that she's hurt, and needs an ambulance, but instead of help, the driver pulls her to the back of the car and uses the bottle of chloroform to put her out. Before placing her into the back of the van, he tells her that she'll be late for her recital. Quickly, he piles her in and drives away, leaving her bike in the clearing.

Answer: St. Angelo's

When Tara wakes up, she finds herself in a sterile hospital room lying on a clean bed. A nurse in front of her also wakes up and moves over to the bed to tell Tara that she's been brought to St. Angelo's Hospital after her accident, and while she may be hurt, she's only suffered a few abrasions and should be fine.

The nurse mentions that she was found 'dumped' at the side of the road by the police and was brought to the hospital after being found. She also mentions that Tara mentioned Greenwich, Connecticut the town where she went to school. Tara asks if that's where she is now, but the nurse says that they're actually in Vermont. Tara quickly realizes that she should call her mother and the nurse points her to the telephone on the nearby table.

When Tara phones her mother, she doesn't get the response that she's expecting. Her mother tells her to call back when she's awake, despite the fact that Tara tells her that she was taken to Vermont. The nurse tells her that she's sorry, but she needs to ask her a few questions.

She begins by asking if she's in good health or if she's had chronic or transmittable diseases. Tara soon gets an odd feeling when the nurse asks if she's been baptized. When the nurse mentions Tara's name, Tara never actually recalls telling her name at all. Quickly, she glances down at a magazine and finds that she's actually in Maine at a music academy. The nurse says it's not what she thinks, and that she shouldn't run since they're very isolated- about five miles from the nearest house. Tara runs anyways. When she gets downstairs, she runs directly into the arms of her abductor. Both the nurse and her abductor carry her to the kitchen and throw her into a cellar, saying that she fits the criteria. They throw her bag in as well and lock the door behind her.

Answer: Hanging from a noose

While Tara wakes up in the basement, upstairs, the nurse and the abductor wait at the door. The abductor daydreams of the nurse, his wife, playing a cello for an audience while he plays the piano beside her. As they take their bows, his daydream shifts to a figure drowning in a lake.

He stands at the shore saying he can't swim, while the nurse screams from the shore. In the basement, however, Tara finally comes to and yells for help as she searches around the dusty rooms filled with old music school posters and instruments.

When she picks up a flyer, she notices a boy hanging from a noose in one of the rooms and fights to pull him down while screaming for help. She manages to find a crate and lift him enough to get him out of the rope before they fall over.

She introduces herself and realizes that the abductors must have put them down here too after drugging him (a band-aid on his arm hides a needle puncture). Although he can't speak, the boy introduces himself as Johnny by writing his name in the dust on the floor.

She asks if there's a way out and he points to the door that she was thrown in through. She states that there's no way out unless they could find some tools and he points to a toolbox along the wall. When they begin to pound at the door, Johnny knocks some dust off with his fist and Tara notices writing scratched into the door. When they brush the rest of the dust off, Tara reads: 'Get out before it wakes up.'

Answer: Anton

After Tara reads the message, Johnny soon shows that he's struggling to breathe, and the lights begin to flicker. The room starts shaking while Tara tries to console Johnny. When this dies down, she notices more messages on the wall saying to get out, and not to let 'it' find them. One of them says to tell the writer's parents that they love them. One message found on a wooden door specifically says to 'Beware the fair haired child'. Upstairs, Tara's abductor sits in the 'hospital room' where Tara initially woke up.

His wife, the nurse (Judith), ends up going through a nearby closet. Anton wonders why he told Tara that she'd be late for her recital when he put her into the van, and Judith blames it on the stress that they've both been under.

When Anton goes to get a glass of water, he ends up dropping it on the floor, then crawling on his hands and knees to pick up a shard of the glass. Quickly, he crawls over to the wall, scratching at the paint with the fragment claiming that he thinks the walls were burgundy back when he had the music room. Judith explains that they only have one more night before everything can go back to normal while Anton says that everything would still be normal if he knew how to swim.

Answer: In a bathroom

Johnny and Tara decide to go into the room with the warning message, but first, they arm themselves with music stand bases to beat off any attackers. When they open the door, Johnny goes inside and Tara stays at the entrance. Johnny doesn't return for a while, but instead he throws four backpacks to the door, each belonging to other students who were trapped in the basement. Tara turns the lights on and they find themselves standing in a bathroom.

In the corner is a blood-encrusted bathtub, a sink, and a mirror, and the ceiling above it is cracked open.

When Tara and Johnny hear noises in the ceiling above them, the bathroom door slams shut. Tara tries to open it, and when she does, she accidentally knocks into a cabinet against the wall, opening it and revealing human skulls.

The two quickly run out and Johnny has another of his fits, crouching against the floor to get a breath. Tara thinks he's going into shock, and hugs him close to warm him. Outside, Judith and Anton begin preparing for their final ceremony.

While Anton digs a grave, he quotes Nietzsche saying "Anything done out of love is beyond good and evil." He hypothesizes that they can't be evil in that case. They then proceed to dig up the bodies around their bonfire, and soak them in acid.

Answer: True

While they work, Judith and Anton recall the day their son died. When he turned 15, he received a rowboat for his birthday and he wanted to try it out. Despite his mother's protests that the lake was too cold, his father encouraged him. Soon after making his way out, the boat capsized, and he fell in. Unable to swim, he drowned before Judith could get him to shore.

The memory skips ahead to Judith and Anton in their backyard, reading a summoning chant to resurrect their son. Soon, a figure appears before them and shows their price to bring back their son.

While Anton finds that the deed would be monstrous, Judith says that she'd do anything to get her son back. In the basement, Johnny and Tara wake up, having fallen asleep. Tara finds that Johnny is still freezing cold and he tells her to talk to him.

He points at her notebook and she talks to him about her drawings. Soon he writes in the dust again to tell her 'it's coming' and he falls over. She tries to help him, but to no avail.

While she tries to bang on the door to the kitchen, the rumbling begins again and she is knocked to the ground. Behind her, Johnny slowly turns into the fair haired child that he warned her about, and she runs and hides.

Answer: In a boiler

In order to escape the fair haired child, Tara hides in a corner of the basement. As the child nears her, she throws a harmonica into the bathroom to throw him off course. During this time, Tara takes the chance to hide in a large boiler. She watches for him through the door's grating, but loses him as he climbs up the walls and around the boiler. Soon, however, the child knows her location, and she scrambles to climb through the ductwork in the back of the boiler.

Although he nearly grabs onto her, Tara makes her way out a grating at the end of the vent and falls into a small compartment.

When she knocks out the grating here, she realizes she's back where she started- in front of the boiler. As she quietly makes her way through the basement, she finds Johnny in his human form, trying to stab himself, but finding he can't do so.

When she asks what he is, he gives her his urn and the spellbook. She finds that the urn is empty, but the spellbook contains chants and pictures of resurrection.

She discovers it was given to Johnny's parents, Anton and Judith, by a student of theirs in the wake of the tragedy.

Answer: Once a year

After looking through the book, Tara asks Johnny who was killed to bring him back. He points to the backpacks around the basement to denote this. When she asks how often, he notes that it happens every year. Since Anton and Judith began, it's been twelve years, and Tara is the first and only girl needed to pay their debts to get their son back.

When Tara realizes she's the last one, Johnny begins yelling that he doesn't want to kill her. Tara realizes that Anton and Judith drugged Johnny earlier so that he wouldn't remember what happened to him or what they were doing to get him back, but when Tara came down and found Johnny hanging himself, he did remember, and tried to commit suicide, only to find that he couldn't die until the ritual was complete. Anton and Judith make their way inside and tell Johnny that he should listen to his mother, who has always looked after him.

Although Anton says that they should open the door to spare Tara's life, Judith says that doing that will kill their son again since the ceremony must he held on his birthday to be valid.

Answer: Yes

While Anton and Judith wait upstairs, Tara asks Johnny if there's any way out of the situation. Quickly, he points at the noose, but Tara says that she doesn't want innocent blood on their hands. If she kills herself, they'll find another girl to sacrifice. Johnny says that he doesn't want her blood on his hands either and he asks for forgiveness.

As Johnny transforms into the fair-haired child once again, Tara hugs him tightly. The basement begins shaking, and when the lights flicker out, Tara is torn into as the sacrifice. When the chaos subsides, Anton lowers a ladder into the basement, and taking a flashlight, he and Judith make their way down into the cellar.

Inside, they find Tara's bloodied corpse. Beside it, written in blood, is Tara's note saying that she forgives Johnny for what he has done. Johnny sits huddled next to the body and Judith smiles at him. Outside, Judith and Anton have Johnny walk through a hallway of roses and the bones of the children sacrificed before Tara and he returns to his mortal self. Anton and Judith celebrate by playing piano and cello in a duet once more.

Answer: Bargaining

When Judith and Anton complete their composition, they find Johnny sitting near the window with his birthday cake. In front of him is Tara's notebook with the page turned to her drawing. He explains that although their talent has always been in music, he found his talent as well: bargaining.

He explains, although his parents had to kill twelve children to bring him back, he brought the number down to two, and they didn't need to be children at all. As Judith makes a run for the door, the new child beats her there and takes her and Anton as sacrifices. The next morning, Tara wakes up in the hospital room, which no longer contains the items it once did.

She finds a note on her bedside table telling her to go to the recital room. When she arrives, she looks out the window and Johnny comes in behind her.

She asks if she knows him and he says that her memory is gone since she had to have some medication. He explains that he takes care of her in his house, and after she begins remembering what happened, he'll help her through it.

As they begin to walk to the lake, they pass by two fresh graves near the walkway of roses marked for Judith and Anton; the final sacrifices of the fair haired child.