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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 did Billings do differently with Andy than with his other children?
(a) Hire a guard for Andy while he slept.
(b) Have Andy sleep in the room with Billings and his wife.
(c) Keep Andy's bedroom lights on when he slept.
(d) Nothing.

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

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

4. What happens to Hall at the end of Graveyard Shift?
(a) He outruns the rats and escapes.
(b) He rolls into the rat nest and is killed.
(c) He is trapped by the rats and killed.
(d) He faints and is eaten by the rats.

5. What accident leads Hunton and Jackson to further investigate the matter behind the mangler?
(a) When a man gets his arm ripped off by the mangler even after all of the fuses are pulled.
(b) When Sherry cuts her finger on the machine.
(c) When a little boy is found dead inside a refrigerator.
(d) When Mrs. Frawley is killed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has happened to the hand that Richie shows his son?

2. Who replaces Katherine Slavin in Norman's class?

3. What is John Renshaw's career?

4. What does Hall discover which leads him to figure out where the rats are coming from?

5. Who is Wayne?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What ultimately causes Renshaw to die?

4. Why does Lester Billings make an appointment with a psychiatrist?

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

6. What questions are the readers left wondering at the end along with Norman in Sometimes They Come Back?

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

8. What theme does The Mangler illustrate and how?

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

10. What does Artie believe is happening to him?

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