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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 does Mike tell the group he saw at a Fourth of July parade?

2. How does Eddie break his arm?

3. What happens when Eddie leaves the grocery store where he spent his allowance?

4. How do the members of the Losers Club hide their clubhouse as children?

5. What event happened in 1929 that Mike Hanlon connects with the beginning of a cycle?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did Henry receive his switchblade knife and what does he use it for?

2. Why does the pharmacist pull Eddie into his office and what does he tell him?

3. How is the body of Patrick Hockstetter that the Losers see in the tunnel different in 1958 than in 1985.

4. How is the Bradley Gang killed?

5. Describe the results of the rock fight in the gravel pit.

6. How does Mike identify the beginning and end of the cycle described in the Third Interlude?

7. Why and how did Patrick Hockstetter kill his infant brother when he was in kindergarten?

8. Describe Bill Denbrough's encounter with Georgie in the tunnels.

9. Why does Mike Hanlon think he will forget the events of their experience with It?

10. How do the Losers respond when Henry is killed?

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

Sexuality seems to surround Beverly, the only female member of the Losers Club. How does sexuality surround Beverly? Why do you think all of the sexuality of the book seems to surround Beverly? What does this say about this character? Why is sexuality important to the novel? Is sexuality considered a positive or negative influence in Derry?

Essay Topic 3

At the end of the book, Mike Hanlon concludes that in time they will all forget what has happened. The ink with which he wrote down the numbers and names of his friends is already fading. Write an essay exploring the role that forgetting and repression play in the novel. On the other hand, consider what role memory plays.

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