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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jack have to promise Grady to get him to open the pantry door?
(a) He will kill Wendy and Danny
(b) He will kill Wendy and bring Danny to the manager
(c) He will leave the Overlook
(d) He will kill himself

2. What blocks Danny's path when he goes to find his father?
(a) The fire hose
(b) A man in a dog costume who threatens Danny
(c) The dead woman
(d) The hedge lion

3. What happens when the monster invading Jack's body goes into the boiler room?
(a) He notices that the Overlook scrapbook is missing
(b) He can't relieve the pressure in the boiler and it explodes
(c) Lloyd meets him there, handing Jack a martini
(d) He releases the pressure in the boiler

4. What does Wendy find in the elevator?
(a) Nothing
(b) Confetti, streamers, and masks
(c) Bloody towel
(d) A mallet

5. Why does Danny scream when he looks into the bathroom mirror?
(a) He sees Jack laughing in the mirror
(b) He sees REDRUM spells MURDER backwards
(c) He sees the dead woman staring back at him
(d) He sees the wasps nest in the mirror

6. What does Jack announce as he enters the Colorado Lounge?
(a) He says that he never should have come to the hotel
(b) He says that he must be imagining all of this
(c) He says that he has been away but now he is back
(d) He says that he is leaving the Overlook

7. Where is Jack standing when he sees the hotel coming to life?
(a) In the elevator
(b) Outside Room 217
(c) In the lobby
(d) Outside the Colorado Lounge

8. What does Grady tell Jack he has to do?
(a) Destroy the scrapbook
(b) Discipline Wendy and Danny
(c) Write a history of the Overlook
(d) Find Ullman

9. What does Danny tell Wendy when she asks him if he talked to Tony?
(a) He tells her that Tony doesn't want to help
(b) He tells her that Tony isn't real
(c) He tells her that he doesn't want to talk to Tony
(d) He says that the things in the hotel won't let Tony come anymore

10. Where does Wendy find a job after she recovers from her injuries?
(a) She gets a job at a school in Maine
(b) She becomes a teacher in New Hampshire
(c) Al Shockley finds her a job in Maryland
(d) She works as an assistant cook for Hallorann

11. What does Hallorann tell Danny to do if he ever needs him?
(a) Never to bother him again
(b) To use his shine
(c) To call him on the phone like a normal person
(d) Try to figure out the problem himself

12. Why does Jack force Danny to look out the window at the topiary?
(a) Because Danny is always afraid to look at the topiary
(b) Because Danny told Jack and Wendy that the hedge animals attacked him
(c) Because the hedge animals look like snow animals in the storm
(d) Because Jack just trimmed the hedge animals

13. What does Jack do when Hallorann walks past his hiding place?
(a) He runs out of the elevator and down the hall
(b) He stays very quiet, so Hallorann won't find him
(c) He comes out of the elevator and strikes Hallorann on the head with the mallet
(d) He punches Hallorann and tells him to get out of the hotel

14. What reaction does the hedge dog have when the Overlook explodes?
(a) It roars with revenge, shaking its head back and forth
(b) It recoils away, flattens its ears, and puts its tail between its legs
(c) It surges foreword, attacking Wendy and Danny
(d) It crawls up to Danny and lies at his feet

15. How does Jack think Danny bruised his neck?
(a) He thinks Wendy did it
(b) He thinks Danny did it on the swings
(c) He thinks he might have done it
(d) He thinks Danny did it to himself

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jack do when Wendy goes to see if he is still in the pantry?

2. How does Wendy get away from Jack?

3. Where is Jack hiding as Hallorann comes up the stairs?

4. What is Jack trying to repair to take his family to town?

5. Where does Danny find Wendy and Hallorann?

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