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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Billing's first child think a monster hid?

2. When Billings' second child dies, what did Billings notice about the bedroom?

3. What does Calvin discover that is written in code?

4. What is outside in the parking lot in Trucks?

5. Whom does Bernie think about?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Artie believe is happening to him?

2. How does Stephen King use setting as a "character" in Jerusalem's Lot?

3. What is Norman's character in Sometimes They Come Back, and what events in his life might attribute to his behavior?

4. What is the great irony in Jerusalem's Lot?

5. What can be said about Henry's character in Gray Matter?

6. How does Hall behave and interact with Warwick, his supervisor?

7. How is the reader led to believe that Charles Boone may be an unreliable narrator?

8. What do we discover in the end of The Boogeyman?

9. What theme does the story, Battleground, illustrate?

10. What ultimately causes Renshaw to die?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Edgar Allen Poe is considered to be the American writer who invented horror. Many of King's tales have similar traits to Poe's, such as the use of an unreliable narrator to tell a story (The Tell-Tale Heart, Poe) or ending the story so that the reader is left assuming the worst. Research both Poe and King and compare and contrast them as authors. Was King influenced by Poe? What commonalities are there between their tales?

Essay Topic 2

Though the majority of the stories in Night Shift are horror, some of the stories do serve the purpose of teaching a lesson about life. Which stories do this and how? Compare and contrast them. Be sure to include exactly what the lesson is and how it is effectively relayed.

Essay Topic 3

The idea of good versus evil is timeless and will continue to be used over and over in literature. Many of the stories in Night Surf use the concept of good versus evil. Compare and contrast the specific stories that have this battle.

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