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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. Where does Eddie Kaspbrak remember playing baseball as a child?

2. When did the main characters of the book first meet?

3. Why does Audra Denbrough decide to go to Derry?

4. What does the creature in the canal do to Adrian?

5. When Edward Cochran went missing, why didn't his parents report his absence?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Eddie Kaspbrask's reaction to the phone call he receives from Mike Hanlon?

2. What happens when Beverly calls out to the voices she hears in the drain and how does she react?

3. Describe Ben's reaction to seeing Henry at the movies.

4. What reason does the author speculate might be why Bill wanted the bike (Silver)?

5. Why does Ben run away from Henry on the last day of school and what happens?

6. Describe what happens when Bill looks through Georgie's photo album.

7. Describe what the young men and Adrian's lover see at the canal side and what the police office thinks they saw.

8. What is the Standpipe and why was it closed?

9. How does Bill help Georgie?

10. How does Georgie die and who kills him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When Stan is contacted by Mike Hanlon to join the group in Derry, he ends the phone call, walks up stairs, and kills himself. Write an essay describing the significance of Stan's suicide in the novel. How do you think this suicide plays into the novel? Is it significant that not all of the Losers Club can meet in 1985? What does Stan's suicide foreshadow about the rest of the novel?

Essay Topic 2

Patrick Hockstetter is a sociopath, Beverly Marsh marries an abusive man, and Mike Hanlon is determined to get the group back together to conquer It once and for all. Each of the characters not only has physical characteristics that identify them, but also a set of emotional or mental characteristics. Select any character from the novel and explore the psychology behind their behavior. If you use technical information, make sure to research your claims and cite all of your sources.

Essay Topic 3

At one point in the novel, Bill Denbrough says, "The town is It, and It is the town." What does Bill mean by this? How are the town and It interconnected? Can It survive without the town? Can the town survive without It? What would Derry be like without It?

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