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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. How long before Chuck "died of a brain tumor" did he tell "his wife the truth about the scar on the back of his hand" (146)?
(a) 1 year.
(b) 3 years.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 3 months.

2. Which person's future death did Chuck foresee when he entered the cupola?
(a) His own.
(b) His son's.
(c) His wife's.
(d) His daughter's.

3. Albie is said to have "at least" told "part of the truth" (133) about the cupola to his grandson Chuck just before Chuck turned how old?
(a) 9.
(b) 16.
(c) 13.
(d) 11.

4. Holly asserts in the section called "December 16, 2020" that the Outsider from the Marysville Hole did not show up in what way?
(a) On paper.
(b) In person.
(c) In print.
(d) On film.

5. For what object was Sarah reaching in the convenience store when she dropped dead of a stroke?
(a) Bread.
(b) Peanut butter.
(c) Milk.
(d) Eggs.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What name had already been picked out for the unborn child who died in the accident with Chuck's parents?

3. Which character does Holly nearly call in the section entitled "December 14, 2020"?

4. What types of movies did Sarah use to teach her grandson Chuck to dance?

5. In what year was Chuck's childhood home with his grandparents built, according to Albie?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Holly travel to Portland, Maine in the story "If It Bleeds"?

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

3. How does the reader learn the way in which Chuck incurred the scar on his hand?

4. Who are Pete and Jerome within the story "If It Bleeds"?

5. What is the significance of the term "orphant" (150) in Act I: I Contain Multitudes in the story entitled "The Life of Chuck"?

6. What is the status of the relationship between Holly and Ralph when the events of "If It Bleeds" take place?

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

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

9. How did Chuck confirm in his own mind that his grandfather Albie's visions of the future were legitimate?

10. 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"?

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