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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 happened with the loose ladder in The Last Rung of the Ladder?

2. The records that Burt finds shows that the deaths of the people occurred on exactly what day?

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

4. Why does Vicky honk the car horn?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What convinces Morrison to quit smoking?

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

4. What does "strawberry spring" refer to?

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

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

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

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

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

10. What does the ledge symbolize in the story The Ledge?

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

Edgar Allen Poe is considered to be the American writer who invented horror. Many of King's tales have similar traits to Poe's, such as the use of an unreliable narrator to tell a story (The Tell-Tale Heart, Poe) or ending the story so that the reader is left assuming the worst. Research both Poe and King and compare and contrast them as authors. Was King influenced by Poe? What commonalities are there between their tales?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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