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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. In what year was Chuck's childhood home with his grandparents built, according to Albie?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1885.
(d) 1943.

2. Who accompanies Holly on her trip back to her hometown in the section called "December 9-13, 2020"?
(a) Jerome.
(b) Allie.
(c) Pete.
(d) Ralph.

3. Holly realizes in the section called "December 9-13, 2020" that at one point, she saw which feature on Chet's face before seeing it missing the next time?
(a) A beard.
(b) A mole.
(c) A mustache.
(d) A wound.

4. Albie told his grandson Chuck that he had "only been up to that damn cupola" (134) how many times in total?
(a) 6.
(b) 9.
(c) 24.
(d) 3.

5. When Dan's grandson calls Holly in the section called "December 22, 2020," she asks him to tell Dan what fact about the Outsider?
(a) It is dead.
(b) It is back.
(c) It is wounded.
(d) It is gone.

Short Answer Questions

1. Holly asserts in the section called "December 16, 2020" that the Outsider from the Marysville Hole did not show up in what way?

2. In what year did Sarah and Albie Krantz move into the home where they later raised Chuck?

3. Albie told Chuck that he swore never to return to the cupola and that when he broke his promise, he saw a future associated with whom?

4. What name did Chuck call his grandmother Sarah until he was in third grade?

5. What quality does Holly NOT ascribe to Chet Ondowsky when she first sees him on television?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is revealed to be the true source of Chuck's crescent-shaped scar?

2. How does King juxtapose an everyday setting with a mood befitting a horror story?

3. What does King mean when he writes of the cupola, "But fascination is fear's twin brother" (137)?

4. For what reason does King include an allusion to Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" in Act I: I Contain Multitudes of the story "The Life of Chuck"?

5. In what way does the motif of dreams appear within the story entitled "If It Bleeds"?

6. At what age did Chuck start calling his grandparents Grandma and Grandpa and why?

7. How did Chuck react to the sight he encountered inside the cupola when he entered it for the first time?

8. What kind of person is Holly's mother and how do you know?

9. What sort of coping mechanisms does Holly use to cope with the effects of her past trauma?

10. Where does Holly arrange to meet the Outsider when he agrees to her demand for $300,000?

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