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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 many specific people did Albie name when he told Chuck about seeing people's coming deaths in the cupola?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.

2. Jerome Robinson works part-time for Holly while he pursues which other endeavor?
(a) Writing a book.
(b) Inventing an app.
(c) Training for a marathon.
(d) Remodeling his home.

3. How old was Chuck when his grandfather Albie died of a heart attack on the front steps of the library?
(a) 17.
(b) 21.
(c) 24.
(d) 15.

4. With what type of creature does Dan reportedly have a fixation?
(a) A werewolf.
(b) A shark.
(c) A succubus.
(d) A psychic vampire.

5. In what location does Holly discover the Outsider's clothes after his demise?
(a) On her bed.
(b) In the street.
(c) At the bottom of the elevator shaft.
(d) In the bathtub.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What tool does Holly use to create a report of her progress for Ralph?

3. What is the last name of Holly, the protagonist of the story entitled "If It Bleeds"?

4. What is the name of the therapist to whom Holly told her story about the Outsider?

5. Albie told Chuck that he visited the cupola so infrequently because it was full of what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What happens in the prologue of the story "If It Bleeds" and how does it set the mood of the story?

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

6. 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"?

7. What did Chuck's grandfather Albie tell him during his childhood about why no one ever entered the cupola in the family home?

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

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

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

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