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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. In which of the following does Gwendy *first* find the box?

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

3. How many days does the flight crew spend in quarantine before boarding the spacecraft?

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

5. To which of the following is Gareth compared?

Short Essay Questions

1. What news effectively ends Magowan's campaign?

2. Describe the box Gwendy carries.

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

4. For what purpose do Lundgren and Drinkwater call Gwendy forward after the space vehicle leaves the atmosphere?

5. Summarize Magowan's political position.

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

7. What comments are made about the older members of the audience for the space launch?

8. Of what does Gwendy dream while dozing before her televised conference?

9. What protections have been put in place around Gwendy's home in the wake of the fire?

10. What connection do the Brighams have to the launch?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Consider Stephen King’s eminence in the literary culture of the United States in the later twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Does the current novel contribute to or detract from that eminence? How so?

Essay Topic 2

Notably, the puzzle box has buttons only for six continents. What significance accrues to the exclusion of Antarctica from the box? How does it accrue?

Essay Topic 3

The novel makes much of the price required for the use of the puzzle-box. Does the novel consider that cost worth paying? What in the text suggests as much, and how?

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