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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 ailment does the man who enters the bar in One for the Road have?
(a) Hives.
(b) Chicken pox.
(c) Frostbite.
(d) Typhoid.

2. In The Ledge, what is Stan Norris' profession?
(a) He is a drug dealer.
(b) He is a mobster.
(c) He is a love counselor.
(d) He teachs tennis.

3. What location does the man in One for the Road say he left his wife and daughter near?
(a) Salem's Lot.
(b) Chapelwaite.
(c) The cornfield.
(d) Jerusalem's Lot.

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

5. Where do Burt and Vicky end up while they are driving?
(a) Cornfields.
(b) Mountains.
(c) A lake.
(d) A forest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is discovered about the young man in the end of The Man Who Loved Flowers?

2. What is the young man whom Elizabeth meets at the beginning of I Know What You Need convinced of?

3. What did Larry do to save his sister when they were children?

4. What does Norris do to Cressner?

5. With what sort of intention about smoking does Dick Morrison go to Quitters, Inc.?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What convinces Morrison to quit smoking?

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

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

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

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