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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 happens in the end of Trucks?
(a) The people become the servants and the trucks are the masters.
(b) All the trucks stop working.
(c) The people become the masters and the trucks the servants.
(d) All the people die.

2. Which of the following is not a common element that can call a demon?
(a) Hand of glory.
(b) Blood of a virgin.
(c) Bat's blood.
(d) Rat's tail.

3. What does Artie believe he did that he tells Richard?
(a) Kill Richard's wife.
(b) Kill a boy.
(c) Eat a boy.
(d) Kill his partner.

4. What is odd about the machine into which a woman was pulled into and killed?
(a) The machine is functioning perfectly.
(b) The machine is extremely old.
(c) The machine is not functioning perfectly.
(d) The machine is brand new.

5. When Andy was born, Billings is determined to not do what?
(a) Kill him.
(b) Smother him.
(c) Hate him.
(d) Love him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bernie want to write on a plaque?

2. How does Norman battle the boys who want to kill him?

3. What is the main setting of The Mangler?

4. What is Artie's initial fear after realizing what is happening to him?

5. What does Charles suspect is making the strange noises in the walls of the house?

Short Essay Questions

1. What theme does the story, Battleground, illustrate?

2. What problem do the trucks appear to have and how do they solve their problem?

3. How is Hall shown to be smarter than the average working man?

4. What is Norman's character in Sometimes They Come Back, and what events in his life might attribute to his behavior?

5. What theme does The Mangler illustrate and how?

6. What appears unusual about Officer Hunton's acceptance of the idea that the killing machines are possessed by spirits?

7. What sort of tone does Lester have when he is telling his story and what might the reader initially think about him?

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

9. In The Mangler, what does Jackson research that must be done to the machines?

10. Describe Bernie and Susie's relationship.

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