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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. Which of the following most accurately describes Mike Hanlon?

2. What does Richie Tozier remember as he sits on a bench in Bassey Park?

3. Which of the following characters does not help build the dam across the flood waters?

4. What is the name of the force that the characters fight?

5. Why does Richie Tozier go over the Bill Denbrough's house?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Dorsey Cochran killed and why is it significant?

2. What is Juniper Hill and what character resides there?

3. What is the subject of the movies the Richie, Ben, and Beverly see? What does Richie see in the house on Neibolt Street? Are these connected?

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

5. Where does Ben go on his walking tour and what is his experience?

6. Describe how Ben Hanscom reacts to Mike Hanlon's phone call.

7. Describe the first confrontation the young men have with Adrian.

8. How does Mike describe Derry in his diary?

9. Describe what happens at the Black Spot in 1930 according to Mike's diary entry.

10. When Eddie is at the field where the children used to play baseball, he sees someone pop up to grab a baseball that has appeared. Who is this person and who does the person change into?

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

Several scenes from the novel take place inside of the library. What scenes take place here? Why do they take place here? What significance does the library have? What does the library represent? Do we see an exchange of ideas in the library? Is the library filled with knowledge or with evil? Are they different?

Essay Topic 3

Various crimes are described in the novel. How do you think crimes are connected to It? Explain the connections between the crimes of people and the evil of It.

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