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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 appears to be happening to the trucks in the morning?
(a) Getting more energized.
(b) Running out of gas.
(c) Tires are becoming flat.
(d) They don't care to keep the people inside anymore.

2. What does Timmy see has happened to his father?
(a) He has fainted.
(b) He has turned into a gray mass.
(c) He has died.
(d) Nothing.

3. Where did Billing's first child think a monster hid?
(a) In the bathroom.
(b) Behind the dresser.
(c) Under the bed.
(d) The closet.

4. Who replaces Katherine Slavin in Norman's class?
(a) David Garcia.
(b) Vincent Corey.
(c) Wayne Norman.
(d) Robert Lawson.

5. Where do the eyeballs appear years after Artie burned his hands?
(a) His arms.
(b) His face.
(c) His hands.
(d) His chest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Artie and Richard go in search of?

2. What did Hall, the main character of Graveyard Shift, start off as?

3. What is outside in the parking lot in Trucks?

4. How does Calvin die?

5. What does Renshaw discover shoved underneath the crack of the door?

Short Essay Questions

1. What can be said about Henry's character in Gray Matter?

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

3. What implies that the church Charles finds might have belonged to Satan-worshipers?

4. What is Bernie's fear?

5. What does Artie believe is happening to him?

6. What is Artie's decision in the end of I Am the Doorway and what can we conclude about him from this?

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

8. What kind of son is Timmy?

9. What is Hall's fate and how might one describe it?

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

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