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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. On the first night of the strawberry spring in the narrator's past, what is discovered?
(a) The dead body of a girl buried.
(b) The dead body of a girl with her head chopped off.
(c) The dead body of a girl with her throat slit.
(d) The dead body of a girl in pieces.

2. What causes the narrator of Strawberry Spring to flashback?
(a) A story on the television.
(b) An article in the newspaper.
(c) A story on the radio.
(d) Seeing his old college friend.

3. What is the young man whom Elizabeth meets at the beginning of I Know What You Need convinced of?
(a) That she is really in love with him.
(b) That he knows what his roommate needs.
(c) That her roommate is in love with him.
(d) That he knows exactly what she needs.

4. What does Larry find waiting for him when he returns home in The Last Rung on the Ladder?
(a) A newspaper clipping from his sister.
(b) A letter from his sister.
(c) His sister.
(d) A letter from his father.

5. When Booth, Tookey, and the man arrive at the car, what do they discover?
(a) It is on fire.
(b) It is gone.
(c) It has been smashed.
(d) It is empty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What event causes Harold Parkette in The Lawnmower Man to sell his mower?

2. Why does Vicky honk the car horn?

3. What ailment does the man who enters the bar in One for the Road have?

4. With what sort of intention about smoking does Dick Morrison go to Quitters, Inc.?

5. What does Johnny find in his mother's medicine cabinet?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the basic premise of I Know What You Need?

2. Why does Harold stop mowing his lawn and what causes him to hire someone to mow it again later in The Lawnmower Man?

3. What can we tell about Booth and Tookey's characters when they decide to help the man in One for the Road?

4. What type of person is Stan Norris in The Ledge?

5. What is the main purpose of The Man Who Loved Flowers?

6. Briefly describe Elizabeth's character in I Know What You Need.

7. What decision does Johnny struggle with in The Woman in the Room?

8. What does Children of the Corn suggest cornfields are a symbol of?

9. What is the symbol of the ladder in The Last Rung on the Ladder?

10. In Quitters, Inc. what sight causes Morrison to want to go to the police and not accept the program he signed up for?

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