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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is roque?
(a) French restaurant in the Overlook lobby
(b) French breakfast pastry
(c) Mexican cheese
(d) A game similar to croquet

2. What indicates to Wendy that all is not right with Danny?
(a) He is tired all the time
(b) He chatters non-stop
(c) She thinks he has lost weight
(d) Bad dreams every night

3. Why is Jack feeling sympathy for Ullman as he says his goodbyes?
(a) Ullman has no one to travel with him
(b) Ullman appears exhausted
(c) The hotel season is over
(d) Ullman's attire is threadbare and shabby

4. How does Jack feel about Danny going into Room 217?
(a) He feels Danny should be punished no matter how scared he is
(b) He feels it is okay if Danny went into the room
(c) He doesn't blame Danny for going into the room
(d) Angry that Danny stole the key to the room

5. Why is Jack ranting before Danny provides the answer?
(a) He cannot locate the trunk labeled
(b) The VW fuel pump has failed
(c) The movers broke at least 6 things
(d) Wendy's expensive wristwatch is missing

6. What old behaviors are Jack doing that has Wendy worried?
(a) Picking his eyebrows, biting his nails, spitting
(b) Contradicting, dancing, biting his nails
(c) Anger, profanity, rage, rubbing his lips, silence
(d) Laughing, passing out, biting his lip

7. What does Dr. Edmonds say Danny possesses?
(a) Emotional instability
(b) Extraordinary human perception
(c) Scattered illusions
(d) Very good memory

8. What does Jack dream his father tells him through the radio?
(a) To get out of the Overlook
(b) To kill himself
(c) To kill Danny
(d) To take Danny off the mountain

9. Why is Stuart Ullman hiring Jack to be caretaker of the Overlook?
(a) Because of the influence of Albert Shockley
(b) He knows Jack needs the money
(c) He likes Jack's attitude
(d) He wants to give Jack a chance

10. What is the background of some guests of the Overlook that Jack reads in an article he finds in the basement?
(a) They were upstanding political figures
(b) They were involved in murder, drug trafficking, tax evasion, prostitution, bootlegging and illegal gambling
(c) They were film stars and entertainers
(d) They were the families of heroes who served in the war

11. What does Jack see in the bathroom of Room 217 the second time he looks?
(a) A woman's shape in the tub
(b) Hallorann's body
(c) A bathtub of blood
(d) Nothing again

12. What does Hallorann always smell before he shines?
(a) Pine trees
(b) Lemons
(c) Chicken cooking
(d) Oranges

13. What 3 words does Danny say as Jack is shaking him?
(a) Let Hallorann speak
(b) Stop shaking me
(c) Call the sheriff
(d) Roque, Stroke, REDRUM

14. What does Danny say happened to him in Room 217?
(a) He says he fell on the bathroom floor
(b) He says that he was attacked by a dead woman
(c) He says that the shower curtain fell on him
(d) He says that nothing happened

15. Watson explains every hotel has its scandals. What is Overlook's?
(a) Illegal workers often hide here for weeks
(b) Criminals often operate here for months because of the seclusion
(c) Non-payment of taxes for years
(d) The rich woman overdoses when the 17 year old

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jack say he intentionally did to Danny?

2. Who forces reconciliation between Wendy and her mother?

3. Why is Danny sitting on the curb sulking?

4. What does Wendy sense from the moment Danny is born?

5. What thought arises when Jack ends the telephone call to Ullman?

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