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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 Larry do to save his sister when they were children?
(a) Get another ladder.
(b) Catch her.
(c) Pile hay underneath her.
(d) Call their father.

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

3. What does the narrator of Strawberry Spring suspect?
(a) That his old college roommate is the killer.
(b) That he is the killer.
(c) That Springheel Jack still exists.
(d) That his wife is the killer.

4. Which president is mentioned in The Man Who Loved Flowers?
(a) Lincoln.
(b) JFK.
(c) Washington.
(d) FDR.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The records that Burt finds shows that the deaths of the people occurred on exactly what day?

2. What does Norris do to Cressner?

3. Where do Burt and Vicky end up while they are driving?

4. What is Elizabeth's roommate concerned about?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does "strawberry spring" refer to?

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

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

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

5. Why does Harold stop mowing his lawn and what causes him to hire someone to mow it again later in The Lawnmower Man?

6. What is Harold horrified to learn about the man he hired to mow his lawn in The Lawnmower Man?

7. What do we learn of Katrina's fate in The Last Rung on the Ladder?

8. What has ironically turned into a source of danger in One for the Road and how?

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

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

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