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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 a box labeled with which of the following does Gwendy have the puzzle box at her house?

2. With which of the following does Chapter 5 begin?

3. What name do the ground and control crews collectively give themselves?

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

5. With whom of the following does Norris confer in the Castle Rock Sheriff’s Department?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Adesh granted a private cabin?

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

3. What is the advice Gwendy's political mentor gave her about dealing with distasteful people?

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

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

6. What news effectively ends Magowan's campaign?

7. Summarize Ryan Brown's Black Friday tradition.

8. What is Charlotte doing when she and Gwendy meet?

9. What information does Gwendy receive about Ryan's death from an anonymous caller?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Assuming that Gwendy’s Final Task should be standard reading for a given class and level, what class and what level? Why that class and why that level? What in the text suggests as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

To what extent is biographical criticism—broadly, a reading strategy that attempts to interpret the novel through its correspondences with the figures and events in its authors’ lives—appropriate to apply to Gwendy’s Final Task? What in the novel and the authors’ backgrounds suggests as much, and how does it do so?

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