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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Henry win the poker game?
(a) Cheating.
(b) Bluffing.
(c) He had a partner placed strategically in the room.
(d) He seemed to know the cards before they were drawn.

2. Why can't George call for help for Gramma?
(a) The phone is dead.
(b) The house has no phone.
(c) The phone is making a strange noise.
(d) None of the answers is correct.

3. How old is George Bruckner in "Gramma"?
(a) 16.
(b) 14.
(c) 12.
(d) 22.

4. What other item does the milkman add to his delivery?
(a) All of the answers are correct.
(b) Belladonna.
(c) Cyanide gas.
(d) Acid gel.

5. What is the implication for George at the end of "Gramma"?
(a) George is going to get a beating from his mother.
(b) All of the answers are correct.
(c) Gramma has taken over George's body.
(d) George has killed Gramma and must confess.

6. What does the milkman place on the empty chocolate milk container at the McCarthy home?
(a) A tarantula.
(b) A scorpion.
(c) A black widow.
(d) A brown recluse.

7. What lie does Henry tell Thorpe?
(a) That the FBI was looking into Thorpe's Fornit.
(b) That Henry had seen a Fornit at the zoo.
(c) That Henry has a Fornit of his own.
(d) That Fornits are actually aliens.

8. What is the reason for the party in "The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet"?
(a) It is a social mixer for those new to the area.
(b) The publication of a young writer's first story.
(c) A birthday.
(d) An anniversary.

9. Where did Richard Pine grow up?
(a) In an orphanage.
(b) In the projects.
(c) With his grandmother.
(d) On a farm.

10. Where are Nona and the narrator heading?
(a) Belfast.
(b) Bangor.
(c) Eastport.
(d) Castle Rock.

11. What does Shapiro begin to think the sands can do?
(a) Devour him.
(b) Swallow him alive.
(c) Hear what he is thinking.
(d) Drag him down into insanity.

12. What is hanging on the blood covered meat hook in the milkman's truck?
(a) An air freshener.
(b) A human hand.
(c) A chunk of unidentifiable flesh.
(d) A cb radio.

13. What is the name of the looking glass?
(a) The English Bauble.
(b) Dante's Looking Glass.
(c) DeIvers Looking Glass.
(d) Mirabella's Looking Glass.

14. What is the reasoning behind Rocky's inebriation?
(a) He spent time in jail for involuntary manslaughter.
(b) He spent time in jail for carrying a concealed weapon.
(c) He spent time in jail for reckless endangerment.
(d) He spent time in jail for embezzlement.

15. What does the milkman discover at the house with the cancellation note?
(a) A murder.
(b) A young girl wandering alone.
(c) A human foot.
(d) A poisonous snake he didn't have in his collection.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many acres was the land Uncle Otto intended to purchase?

2. George tells his friends about an event that took place how many years before?

3. Who is Reg Thorpe?

4. Why does George's mother say his Gramma turned toward behavior that caused people to talk?

5. What does Shapiro do while Rand stands mesmerized by the shifting sand?

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