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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rachel fix for dinner the night she sends the kids to the babysitter?
(a) Steaks.
(b) Hamburgers.
(c) Homemade stroganoff.
(d) Hamburger Helper.

2. What does Louis find in his bed sheets?
(a) The family pet.
(b) An old sock.
(c) Dirt and pine needles.
(d) Gage's toy car.

3. What perplexes Louis about the dying man in the campus clinic on the first day of school?
(a) How he could speak and how he knew Louis's name.
(b) How he arrived at the campus medical center.
(c) Why he was injured.
(d) Whether or not he stole the ambulance.

4. Which family were trappers and traders in the community in the 1800s?
(a) The Creeds.
(b) The Smiths.
(c) The Crandalls.
(d) The Bouchards.

5. What two secrets is Louis hiding in Chapters 26-30?
(a) His friendship with Jud and Pascow.
(b) His fear of death and his anger against his in-laws.
(c) The death and resurrection of Church and the prosititute he visited six years prior.
(d) He wants a new car and wants to run away from home.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who brings a sense of calmness to the Creeds in Chapter 2?

2. Where do the neighbors visit on Louis's first trip to Jud's house?

3. What does the dying man tell Louis about the Pet Sematary?

4. What did Jud invite Louis to do in Chapter 4?

5. Who first notices the path at the back edge of the Creed's new property?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Louis's first patient at the university medical center on the first day of school?

2. What does Louis do with the Creed family pet after the truck accident on the busy road?

3. Who told Jud about the Indian burial ground and why?

4. What secret does Jud and Louis keep from their wives in Chapter 25 and who decides it must be kept a secret?

5. Why doesn't Norma get out of the house more?

6. What alarms Louis on the first day of school as he pulls into the medical center parking lot?

7. Why does Louis try to quickly clean up any animals that Church kills?

8. How does Louis explain to Ellie about the cat getting "fixed."

9. As the story opens, what is Louis's dream job and fantasy?

10. What grudge does Louis hold against his father-in-law and why doesn't the man like Louis?

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