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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. What does Bernie dream about?

2. What is inside the package Renshaw receives?

3. Who is stranded inside the building in Trucks?

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

5. What has wiped out most of humankind?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do we discover in the end of The Boogeyman?

2. Describe Renshaw's character in Battleground.

3. Briefly describe Hall's character from Graveyard Shift.

4. Describe Officer Hunton's character briefly.

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

6. How does Stephen King use setting as a "character" in Jerusalem's Lot?

7. What is Bernie's fear?

8. What ultimately causes Renshaw to die?

9. What is the symbolism behind the gray mass that Richie has become?

10. What is Norman's character in Sometimes They Come Back, and what events in his life might attribute to his behavior?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There are not too many people who do not know the name Stephen King without having an automatic association to horror tales. Research who Stephen King is as an individual and as an author. How did he become the renowned author he is today? From where does he draw inspiration for his tales? Where did he get inspiration for Night Shift?

Essay Topic 2

The death of the main character is common in horror stories. Compare and contrast the deaths of several characters in Night Shift. Why did the character die and how? What purpose did the death serve and what message does it send to the reader?

Essay Topic 3

Many of the stories are told in First Person narration. Discuss first person narration as a tool, while comparing and contrasting the first person narrators in the Night Shift.

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