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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Johnny find in his mother's medicine cabinet?
(a) Aspirin.
(b) Her journal.
(c) Some powerful painkillers.
(d) Her daily medications.

3. What do people think when they see the young man in The Man Who Loved Flowers?
(a) That he is rich.
(b) That he is stupid.
(c) That he is insane.
(d) That he is in love.

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

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

6. What does the narrator of Strawberry Spring suspect?
(a) That his old college roommate is the killer.
(b) That he is the killer.
(c) That Springheel Jack still exists.
(d) That his wife is the killer.

7. What happened with the loose ladder in The Last Rung of the Ladder?
(a) It fell leaving Larry dangling above the ground.
(b) It was fixed.
(c) Nothing.
(d) It fell leaving Larry's sister dangling above the ground.

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

9. Why does Vicky have an aversion to religion?
(a) Because of her preacher mother.
(b) Because she gets confused by it.
(c) Because she worships the devil.
(d) Because of her preacher father.

10. In The Woman in the Room, what is Johnny's mother dying of?
(a) Frostbite.
(b) Fever.
(c) Cancer.
(d) A6.

11. Who is the first person narrator in One For the Road?
(a) The man.
(b) Booth.
(c) A vampire.
(d) Tookey.

12. What does Larry think back on in The Last Rung of the Ladder?
(a) Milking the cows with his sister.
(b) His own life.
(c) The old barn with a third loft.
(d) His father's strict punishments.

13. What special gift does Ed have?
(a) Extra-sensory perception.
(b) Telekinesis.
(c) Magic powers.
(d) None.

14. What is the consequence that Morrison faces if he gains too much weight?
(a) His daughter will lose her pinky.
(b) His wife will lose her pinky.
(c) His son will lose his pinky.
(d) He will lose his pinky.

15. With what sort of intention about smoking does Dick Morrison go to Quitters, Inc.?
(a) Full-fledged intention to quit.
(b) Not fully committed to quit.
(c) Half-hearted intention to quit.
(d) Nonchalant commitment to quit.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Elizabeth's roommate concerned about?

3. What event causes Harold Parkette in The Lawnmower Man to sell his mower?

4. What is the consequence of Morrison cheating his first time on the program to quit smoking?

5. What causes the narrator of Strawberry Spring to flashback?

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