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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. With whom of the following does Norris confer in the Castle Rock Sheriff’s Department?
(a) Bryan Adams.
(b) Ryan Brown.
(c) Gerry Keele.
(d) Brian Gardner.

2. What song plays as Gwendy and her friend do their Black Friday shopping?
(a) "Dust in the Wind."
(b) "I Write the Songs."
(c) "Moonlight Serenade."
(d) "Rock and Roll Fantasy."

3. With which of the following does Chapter 22 begin?
(a) “When Gwendy turns around to stoke her way back from officer country to the crew’s launch area…, she almost bumps heads with Gareth Winston, who is floating just behind her.”
(b) “When Gwendy Peterson was a young girl, she and her best friend Olive Kepnes played a game called ‘Mermaids’ at the Castle Rock Community Pool.”
(c) “The video conference is a big hit, a real smasheroo.”
(d) “‘What—’ Gwendy began, meaning to finish with either are you doing here or is wrong with you, she didn’t know which, and Farris didn’t give her time.”

4. What industry does Magowan promise to restore in Maine?
(a) Mining.
(b) Canning.
(c) Textiles.
(d) Drilling.

5. With which of the following does Chapter 15 begin?
(a) “A plague…from China?”
(b) “Bern Stapleton hands the iPad back to Jafari Bankole.”
(c) “The morning after Richard Farris’s surprise Thanksgiving visit dawned clear and cold in the town of Castle Rock, Maine.”
(d) “‘I only got there right at the end,’ Adesh says, keeping his voice low, ‘but it sounded like you were whimpering.’”

Short Answer Questions

1. On what day did Gwendy announce her Senate candidacy?

2. With which of the following does Chapter 14 begin?

3. With whom of the following does Norris confer in Derry?

4. What moniker is accorded to first-time space travelers in the novel?

5. To which of the following is Gwendy compared?

Short Essay Questions

1. What noises from Gareth interrupt Gwendy and Adesh as they confer on the way to the space station?

2. What sign had formerly graced the approach to the flight vehicle?

3. Under what circumstances is the flight crew likely to encounter their Chinese counterparts?

4. What is Gwendy's official position on the space mission?

5. Where is the fire-damage to Gwendy's house concentrated?

6. Why is Gwendy unable to wave to the ground and control crews on her approach to her spacecraft?

7. What basic assumption does Gwendy harbor about the wealthy, to which she thinks Gareth an exception?

8. What argument does Pete Riley initially attempt to convince Gwendy to run for Senate?

9. Summarize the game "Mermaids."

10. What fate befell the most recent holder of the puzzle box before Gwendy?

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