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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. Who had told Silas what a reptile collector is called?
(a) Angie.
(b) Carl.
(c) Larry.
(d) Cecil.

2. Wallace Stringfellow says that he had enjoyed listening to what sound as a child?
(a) The rain falling onto the roof.
(b) His father strangling his mother.
(c) His mother hurting his sister.
(d) His mother having sex with various men.

3. To what horror novel does the scene of the dog John Wayne Gacy allude?
(a) Silence of the Lambs.
(b) Salem's Lot.
(c) Rosemary's Baby.
(d) Graveyard Shift.

4. Chapter 10 shifts back and forth throughout which time periods in the novel?
(a) The present and the future.
(b) The past and the future.
(c) The present and the past.
(d) The distant past and the recent past.

5. Wallace Stringfellow tells Larry that sometimes women want which two different actions taken against them?
(a) To be pampered and trusted.
(b) To be raped and hurt.
(c) To be left alone and to be trusted.
(d) To be trusted and adored.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Larry wakes up from his coma, he realizes that he is a suspect in what crimes?

2. How long after Silas is warned about his relationship with Cindy does she disappear?

3. What object does Wallace Stringfellow name when he mentions strangling women?

4. Who is interrogating Larry when Silas arrives to interrupt the interview?

5. What object does Wallace Stringfellow say that he collects when he is interviewed by Silas?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the symbolism of the gun Wallace Stringfellow gives to Larry as a Christmas present?

2. In what way does the theme of isolation arise within French's interview of Larry in the hospital?

3. Describe the event involving Larry, a then-unknown-to-Larry Wallace Stringfellow, and the zombie mask.

4. In what way does Franklin use sensory details to depict the fight between Silas and Wallace Stringfellow?

5. What is the ultimate fate of Wallace Stringfellow, the murderer of Tina Rutherford and M and M, among others?

6. What information does Silas reveal when he interrupts the interrogation of Larry at the hospital?

7. In what way is the placement of the novel's climax unusual?

8. What drug does Wallace Stringfellow admit to taking on the night when he vandalizes Larry's truck?

9. Describe an example of Franklin's use of allusion within Chapter 14.

10. In what way does the motif of snakes appear within the novel's climax?

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