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

2. What location does the man in One for the Road say he left his wife and daughter near?

3. What causes the narrator of Strawberry Spring to flashback?

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

5. What does the young man in The Man Who Loved Flowers stop to purchase?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is Harold horrified to learn about the man he hired to mow his lawn in The Lawnmower Man?

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

6. What convinces Morrison to quit smoking?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Many of the stories focus on a particular setting. which is important in moving the plot forward. Discuss how King effectively uses setting as a tool of writing, while including specific examples from the book as support.

Essay Topic 2

Many of the stories in Night Shift have a film adaptation. Analyze what elements of the stories lend themselves to be translated to film. Are the messages as clear? Does film make the story clearer, or change it altogether? How and why?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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