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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 and his wife do after the death of his second child?
(a) Commit suicide.
(b) Kill each other.
(c) Immediately have another child.
(d) Move to a new house.

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

3. What do the men see is happening to Richie?
(a) He is dying.
(b) He is melting.
(c) He is dividing.
(d) He is suffocating.

4. Who is the main character of The Mangler?
(a) Martin.
(b) Jackson.
(c) Mrs. Frawley.
(d) Officer Hunton.

5. What happened to Artie's body after the space mission accident?
(a) He is completely paralyzed.
(b) He is paralyzed from the waist down.
(c) He has short-term memory loss.
(d) He has long-term memory loss.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has wiped out most of humankind?

2. Who says "Maybe we're the last people on earth?"

3. When Billings' second child dies, what did Billings notice about the bedroom?

4. What day does Hall decide to work to earn some extra money?

5. Where does Renshaw head to from the bathroom?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Artie believe is happening to him?

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

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

4. What theme is touched upon in Gray Matter?

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

6. What is the basic premise of the story Night Surf?

7. Describe Renshaw's character in Battleground.

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

9. What does Artie fear and what does it tell us about him?

10. What ultimately causes Renshaw to die?

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