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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. What malady contributed to the death of Holly's former business partner, Bill Hodges?

2. With what type of creature does Dan reportedly have a fixation?

3. For what object was Sarah reaching in the convenience store when she dropped dead of a stroke?

4. Dan says that he first saw the Outsider when he was how many years old?

5. Who is Allie Winters?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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"?

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

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

5. For what reason did Chuck transition from one home to another at age seven?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How are the topics of romantic relationships, love, and marriage treated within the collection If It Bleeds and how does their treatment relate to the collection's depicted messages?

Essay Topic 2

How is the theme of hypocrisy treated within King’s text and with which of the collection’s stories does the theme most closely connect?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss King’s use of metaphor, simile, imagery, and other literary devices as a means to send particular thematic messages within the narrative of If It Bleeds.

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