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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. Which of the following sits next to Gwendy at dinner?

2. How many passengers are in the car that runs down Gwendy’s late husband?

3. What is the name of Gareth’s company?

4. With which of the following does Chapter 42 begin?

5. Whom of the following attacks Gareth?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the crew made aware of the fatal confrontation between Gwendy and Gareth?

2. To what does Gwendy attribute the origin of her mental condition?

3. What does Gwendy describe as “the biggest miracle of all” (296)?

4. How is the subject of interrogation at Derry interrogated?

5. Of what does Gwendy dream on her fourth night on the space station?

6. What information does Charlotte provide in response to Gwendy’s appended query?

7. In what ways does Gwendy perceive the space station like a haunted building in a movie?

8. What does Bobby remark is “the most important gift a young man can possess” (319)?

9. What does Gwendy note had been Gareth’s mantra (347)?

10. What, per the novel, is sundowning?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Sources attest to the presence of Gwendy’s Final Task on best-seller lists. Assuming that sales figures reflect popularity, what accounts for the popularity of the novel? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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