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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the people refuse to comply to the trucks' wishes, what happens?

2. Where did Billing's first child think a monster hid?

3. What does Billings discover in the end of The Boogeyman?

4. What has happened to the hand that Richie shows his son?

5. In Trucks, what happens to the man who tries to make a run for it?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the people inside the diner do in attempts to prepare for long term survival and what happens to them?

2. What is the great irony in Jerusalem's Lot?

3. How is Hall shown to be smarter than the average working man?

4. What are Norman's dreams about?

5. What is Hall's fate and how might one describe it?

6. What theme does The Mangler illustrate and how?

7. What is the problem with Needles?

8. What theme does the story, Battleground, illustrate?

9. What happened to Artie because of his space mission and why is this significant to the story?

10. What ultimately causes Renshaw to die?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Boogeyman story is a tale told about a monster that many children grow up hearing. Many variations have been told about the monster in the closet or the monster hiding underneath the bed. Research the concept of the boogeyman and analyze King's re-telling of the monster's tale.

Essay Topic 2

The theme of revenge is found in several of the works in Night Shift. In which stories is revenge a theme? Compare and contrast the revenge in these stories.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss horror as a genre. Research its popularity, examining what classifies a story as horror and how the stories in Night Shift fit this genre.

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