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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. In The Woman in the Room, what is Johnny's mother dying of?
2. What do people think when they see the young man in The Man Who Loved Flowers?
3. What does Larry find out happened to his sister?
4. The records that Burt finds shows that the deaths of the people occurred on exactly what day?
5. What happened with the loose ladder in The Last Rung of the Ladder?
Short Essay Questions
1. What decision does Johnny struggle with in The Woman in the Room?
2. How does marital discord influence the story in Children of the Corn?
3. Briefly describe Elizabeth's character in I Know What You Need.
4. What does Children of the Corn suggest cornfields are a symbol of?
5. What evidence points to the narrator of Strawberry Spring being the serial killer?
6. What has ironically turned into a source of danger in One for the Road and how?
7. What is Harold horrified to learn about the man he hired to mow his lawn in The Lawnmower Man?
8. What do we learn of Katrina's fate in The Last Rung on the Ladder?
9. What do people think about the young man in The Man Who Loved Flowers and is their assumption correct?
10. What does "strawberry spring" refer to?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
The theme of family is found in a few of the works in Night Shift. Which stories portray family and in what light? What are the relationships between family members? Compare and contrast the stories, analyzing each in relation to family.
Essay Topic 3
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?
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