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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. Why do local children often take the path?

2. What does Rachel fix for dinner the night she sends the kids to the babysitter?

3. In Chapter 2, how does Ellie cut her knee?

4. Louis has a dream the first night he sleeps in his new house. Who is with him in his dream?

5. Who is sick when the plane lands?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss two examples of foreshadowing in Chapters 6-10.

2. What does the dead man tell Louis and why?

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

4. What discrepancy in Jud's pet story did Louis recall?

5. How does Louis feel as he crosses into the Indian territory with Jud?

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

7. What do the Indians believe about the Wendigo and how does this belief affect their sacred burial grounds?

8. Why do the Creeds take an almost immediate liking to Jud?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify and define exposition. What did the reader learn from the exposition in Pet Sematary? Was the information consistent throughout the book or did it change? Explain your answer and reasoning.

Essay Topic 2

Jud was terrified that the resurrected Timmy Baterman "knew things." How does this fear relate to the conflict and the theme of the book?

Essay Topic 3

What is inciting force and which character was the inciting force in this story? How did the character fulfill that role? Give three examples and discuss the importance of each one in detail.

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