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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Artie's initial fear after realizing what is happening to him?
(a) He fears he will be killed.
(b) He fears being shunned.
(c) He fears dying.
(d) He fears aliens will kill him.

2. Who is Jackson?
(a) Hunton's neighbor.
(b) Hunton's companion.
(c) Hunton's partner.
(d) Hunton's brother.

3. What does the supervisor call Hall?
(a) Beer boy.
(b) Bus boy.
(c) Rat boy.
(d) College boy.

4. After several men get bitten by rats, what does the supervisor get for the men to use?
(a) Heavy rubberized gloves.
(b) Heavy rubberized suits.
(c) An exterminator.
(d) Large, blinding flashlights.

5. Why does Richie start closing all the shades?
(a) He just likes to pull the shades down.
(b) He does not want people to peek in and see him.
(c) He is becoming a vampire.
(d) He can't stand the light.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is odd about the machine into which a woman was pulled into and killed?

2. Who is the narrator of I Am the Doorway?

3. When does Hunton discover the freak accidents with the machine?

4. What is the main setting for Night Surf?

5. What does Timmy see has happened to his father?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Renshaw's character in Battleground.

2. Describe Officer Hunton's character briefly.

3. How is the theme of revenge expressed in Sometimes They Come Back?

4. What ultimately causes Renshaw to die?

5. How does Stephen King use setting as a "character" in Jerusalem's Lot?

6. Why does Lester think the Boogeyman killed his children?

7. What is the symbolism behind the gray mass that Richie has become?

8. Describe Bernie and Susie's relationship.

9. How is the reader led to believe that Charles Boone may be an unreliable narrator?

10. Briefly describe Hall's character from Graveyard Shift.

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