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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 illness does Norma have?

2. What are the charges against the driver who hit the jogger?

3. Why do local children often take the path?

4. What unusual thing does Louis notice about the stone cairns?

5. Who was considered a bit crazy by the locals?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Louis notice about the family pet after getting it neutered? What do the other family members notice?

2. Why doesn't Louis doubt Jud's tale about the evil powers at the Indian burial grounds?

3. What does Jud say the community believed about the Wendigo and what is his own belief?

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

5. Where does the dead man take Louis and what does he see that truly frightens him?

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

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

8. What is the Creed family pet doing while Gage is choking on his own vomit? What does Louis do to the pet?

9. What happens as the family stares at their new home for the first time?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the difference between the theme and the subject of a literary work? Discuss the differences as they relate to Pet Sematary.

Essay Topic 2

There are several techniques the author uses to build suspense. Write in detail about two of those techniques and give examples from the story.

Essay Topic 3

Define and discuss crisis in literature. When does it occur? Discuss the crisis of Pet Sematary in detail.

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