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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. How did the first strawberry spring end?
(a) The fog continued to grow.
(b) The storm came.
(c) The storm blew in and the fog went away.
(d) The strawberries died.

2. The records that Burt finds shows that the deaths of the people occurred on exactly what day?
(a) Their thirteenth birthday.
(b) Their nineteenth birthday.
(c) Their twelfth birthday.
(d) Their eighteenth birthday.

3. In Quitters, Inc. what does Jimmy McCann say he has quit?
(a) Drinking.
(b) Smoking.
(c) Stealing.
(d) Gambling.

4. What does Johnny's mother ask him to sneak her sometimes?
(a) Heroin.
(b) Powerful painkillers.
(c) Aspirin.
(d) Her journal.

5. What event causes Harold Parkette in The Lawnmower Man to sell his mower?
(a) When a cat is caught under the blades.
(b) When a woodchuck is caught under the blades.
(c) When a dog is caught under the blades.
(d) When a squirrel is caught under the blades.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened with the loose ladder in The Last Rung of the Ladder?

2. Why does Vicky have an aversion to religion?

3. What ailment does the man who enters the bar in One for the Road have?

4. What does Johnny find in his mother's medicine cabinet?

5. What is Elizabeth's roommate concerned about?

Short Essay Questions

1. How can The Woman in the Room still be considered a horror story though it is not the traditional kind?

2. What do people think about the young man in The Man Who Loved Flowers and is their assumption correct?

3. What is the basic premise of I Know What You Need?

4. What is the symbol of the ladder in The Last Rung on the Ladder?

5. What convinces Morrison to quit smoking?

6. What does the ledge symbolize in the story The Ledge?

7. What is the main purpose of The Man Who Loved Flowers?

8. How does marital discord influence the story in Children of the Corn?

9. What decision does Johnny struggle with in The Woman in the Room?

10. What type of person is Stan Norris in The Ledge?

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