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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. On the first night of the strawberry spring in the narrator's past, what is discovered?
(a) The dead body of a girl with her head chopped off.
(b) The dead body of a girl in pieces.
(c) The dead body of a girl with her throat slit.
(d) The dead body of a girl buried.

2. What do Burt and Vicky discover about the child that they run down in the street?
(a) His head is gone.
(b) His eyeballs have been gouged out.
(c) He is still alive.
(d) His throat is cut.

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

4. When does Norris' trouble start?
(a) When he falls in love with a client.
(b) When he falls off the ledge.
(c) When he starts dealing drugs.
(d) When he threatens a mobster.

5. What does Larry find waiting for him when he returns home in The Last Rung on the Ladder?
(a) A letter from his sister.
(b) His sister.
(c) A letter from his father.
(d) A newspaper clipping from his sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Vicky honk the car horn?

2. What does Johnny give his mother?

3. What is Elizabeth's roommate concerned about?

4. Why did Katrina let go when Larry told her to even though she didn't know what he was planning?

5. What causes the narrator of Strawberry Spring to flashback?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Briefly describe Elizabeth's character in I Know What You Need.

5. What convinces Morrison to quit smoking?

6. What does Children of the Corn suggest cornfields are a symbol of?

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

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

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

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

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