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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes the narrator of Strawberry Spring to flashback?
(a) Seeing his old college friend.
(b) A story on the radio.
(c) An article in the newspaper.
(d) A story on the television.

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

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

4. What connection does Ed have with Elizabeth's boyfriend?
(a) Ed is in love with him.
(b) They are brothers.
(c) They are cousins.
(d) Ed killed him.

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

6. What is Morrison's wife's reaction to learning about the Quitters, Inc. program?
(a) She is supportive.
(b) She is uncertain.
(c) She does not care.
(d) She is furious.

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

8. What explanation does the person who is mowing the lawn give to Harold about his behavior?
(a) His boss believes in this more natural lawn care.
(b) His boss doesn't care what he does.
(c) He doesn't give any explanation.
(d) He really used to be a goat and is now a human.

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

10. What is the young man whom Elizabeth meets at the beginning of I Know What You Need convinced of?
(a) That he knows what his roommate needs.
(b) That he knows exactly what she needs.
(c) That she is really in love with him.
(d) That her roommate is in love with him.

11. Where does Johnny leave the pill bottle?
(a) In the trashcan.
(b) In his pocket.
(c) On the pillow by his mother.
(d) Inside the top of his mother's purse.

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

13. Who does Harold expect will come to mow his lawn?
(a) A professional.
(b) A naked man.
(c) A teenager.
(d) The boy who mowed his lawn before.

14. What did Larry do to save his sister when they were children?
(a) Call their father.
(b) Catch her.
(c) Get another ladder.
(d) Pile hay underneath her.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Elizabeth's roommate concerned about?

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

3. What does Larry think back on in The Last Rung of the Ladder?

4. What year is The Man Who Loved Flowers set in?

5. What do the people nickname the killer in Strawberry Spring?

(see the answer keys)

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