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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The records that Burt finds shows that the deaths of the people occurred on exactly what day?
(a) Their thirteenth birthday.
(b) Their eighteenth birthday.
(c) Their twelfth birthday.
(d) Their nineteenth birthday.

2. Which of the following is not something the person who comes to mow Harold's lawn does?
(a) Eats a squirrel.
(b) Eats a woodchuck.
(c) Eats the lawn cuttings like a goat.
(d) He is naked.

3. What location does the man in One for the Road say he left his wife and daughter near?
(a) Chapelwaite.
(b) Salem's Lot.
(c) Jerusalem's Lot.
(d) The cornfield.

4. How does Ed help Elizabeth?
(a) By consoling her after her breakup.
(b) By buying her ice cream.
(c) By being her friend.
(d) By giving her answers to a test.

5. What must Norris do in the bet made between him and Cressner?
(a) Walk along the two-inch ledge of Cressner's apartment.
(b) Hide drugs in his car and hope the police don't find it.
(c) Steal from the police.
(d) Have his lover walk along the two-inch ledge of Cressner's apartment.

6. What is Elizabeth's roommate concerned about?
(a) Elizabeth's grades.
(b) Elizabeth's growing relationship with Ed.
(c) Elizabeth's lack of commitment to Ed.
(d) Elizabeth's boyfriend.

7. What has happened to the wife and daughter in One For the Road?
(a) They have been eaten by the vampires.
(b) They have been turned into vampires.
(c) They have been killed by the vampires.
(d) They have been burned by the vampires.

8. What does Johnny give his mother?
(a) A mix of drugs.
(b) A lot of Aspirin.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Six of the powerful pills.

9. Why does Vicky honk the car horn?
(a) Because a bunch of kids are converging on the car, attempting to attack.
(b) Because she is impatient and wants to leave.
(c) Because the cornfields have come to life and attack the car.
(d) Because the police officers discover them.

10. Who is Cressner?
(a) The mobster fiance of Norris' lover.
(b) The mobster who is Norris' boss.
(c) The mobster whom Norris owes money to.
(d) The mobster husband of Norris' lover.

11. What event causes Harold Parkette in The Lawnmower Man to sell his mower?
(a) When a woodchuck is caught under the blades.
(b) When a dog is caught under the blades.
(c) When a squirrel is caught under the blades.
(d) When a cat is caught under the blades.

12. What does Johnny's mother ask him to sneak her sometimes?
(a) Her journal.
(b) Aspirin.
(c) Heroin.
(d) Powerful painkillers.

13. What year is The Man Who Loved Flowers set in?
(a) 1936.
(b) 1966.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1996.

14. What is discovered about the young man in the end of The Man Who Loved Flowers?
(a) That he is rich.
(b) That he is stupid.
(c) That he is very poor.
(d) That he is insane.

15. What does Norris do to Cressner?
(a) Forces him to walk the ledge.
(b) Pushes him off the ledge.
(c) Knocks him unconscious.
(d) Shoots him.

Short Answer Questions

1. In The Ledge, what is Stan Norris' profession?

2. How does Elizabeth keep Ed at arm's length?

3. What does Larry find waiting for him when he returns home in The Last Rung on the Ladder?

4. On the first night of the strawberry spring in the narrator's past, what is discovered?

5. What does Larry find out happened to his sister?

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