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

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

3. What explanation does the person who is mowing the lawn give to Harold about his behavior?
(a) His boss doesn't care what he does.
(b) He really used to be a goat and is now a human.
(c) His boss believes in this more natural lawn care.
(d) He doesn't give any explanation.

4. What does Johnny give his mother?
(a) Nothing.
(b) A lot of Aspirin.
(c) Six of the powerful pills.
(d) A mix of drugs.

5. What does Johnny find in his mother's medicine cabinet?
(a) Her journal.
(b) Her daily medications.
(c) Aspirin.
(d) Some powerful painkillers.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Quitters, Inc. what does Jimmy McCann say he has quit?

2. To whom is Jerusalem's Lot rumored to be the home of?

3. What is Morrison's wife's reaction to learning about the Quitters, Inc. program?

4. What does the narrator of Strawberry Spring suspect?

5. What do people think when they see the young man in The Man Who Loved Flowers?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Quitters, Inc. what sight causes Morrison to want to go to the police and not accept the program he signed up for?

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

3. What can we tell about Booth and Tookey's characters when they decide to help the man in One for the Road?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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