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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 do people think when they see the young man in The Man Who Loved Flowers?
2. What event causes Harold Parkette in The Lawnmower Man to sell his mower?
3. What is discovered about the young man in the end of The Man Who Loved Flowers?
4. Who does Harold expect will come to mow his lawn?
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 is the main purpose of The Man Who Loved Flowers?
2. What can we tell about Booth and Tookey's characters when they decide to help the man in One for the Road?
3. What does Children of the Corn suggest cornfields are a symbol of?
4. What is Harold horrified to learn about the man he hired to mow his lawn in The Lawnmower Man?
5. What has ironically turned into a source of danger in One for the Road and how?
6. What evidence points to the narrator of Strawberry Spring being the serial killer?
7. What convinces Morrison to quit smoking?
8. What type of person is Stan Norris in The Ledge?
9. Why does Harold stop mowing his lawn and what causes him to hire someone to mow it again later in The Lawnmower Man?
10. What is the symbol of the ladder in The Last Rung on the Ladder?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Religion is a topic that is always popular in works of literature. Some of the tales in Night Shift touch upon religion. What statements are they making about religion? Compare and contrast the stories, as well as analyze each specific one in relation to religion.
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
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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