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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 does Elizabeth keep Ed at arm's length?
(a) By telling him she will be ready to date him in a few months.
(b) By telling him she is not interested in men.
(c) By telling him she is not interested in a relationship.
(d) By telling him she has a boyfriend.

2. What do people think when they see the young man in The Man Who Loved Flowers?
(a) That he is insane.
(b) That he is rich.
(c) That he is in love.
(d) That he is stupid.

3. What is the young man whom Elizabeth meets at the beginning of I Know What You Need convinced of?
(a) That he knows what his roommate needs.
(b) That he knows exactly what she needs.
(c) That she is really in love with him.
(d) That her roommate is in love with him.

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

5. What is the name of the young man's special lady in The Man Who Loved Flowers?
(a) Rita.
(b) Her name is not mentioned.
(c) Elizabeth.
(d) Norma.

Short Answer Questions

1. In The Woman in the Room, what is Johnny's mother dying of?

2. Who is Cressner?

3. What does Cressner reveal to Norris?

4. What has happened to the wife and daughter in One For the Road?

5. What event causes Harold Parkette in The Lawnmower Man to sell his mower?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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 does "strawberry spring" refer to?

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

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

9. What evidence points to the narrator of Strawberry Spring being the serial killer?

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

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