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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Hallorann thinking when he goes to the equipment shed to get blankets?
(a) He thinks that none of this tragedy is Danny's fault
(b) Blood and death fill his mind
(c) He wishes he didn't have any powers
(d) He thinks how lucky he is to have met Danny

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

3. Where do Wendy and Danny go after the fire in the Overlook?
(a) They move back to Vermont
(b) They stay with Dick Hallorann at the Red Arrow Lodge
(c) They move in with Wendy's mother
(d) They go to a shelter

4. What do Wendy, Danny, and Hallorann do in the final paragraph of the story?
(a) They sit together fishing on a dock in the afternoon sun
(b) They talk about all the horrors of the Overlook hotel
(c) They complain that their lives will always be full of tragedy
(d) They argue about where Wendy and Danny should live

5. What does Wendy remember that gets her excited?
(a) There is a ski lift that will carry them down the mountain
(b) There is a snowmobile in the shed
(c) They can ski down the mountain
(d) There is an old truck in the shed

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

7. What happens to Danny when he plays in the concrete ring tunnels?
(a) He passes out in the tunnel
(b) He is trapped by rats
(c) He is trapped by th edead woman
(d) The snow collapses around him

8. What does Jack do when he gets out of the pantry?
(a) He kills himself
(b) He takes the mallet and swings it back and forth
(c) He runs out into the snowstorm
(d) He takes a knife from the pantry

9. What does Wendy do when she gets away from Jack?
(a) She tells Jack she is sorry
(b) She smashes a wine bottle over his head
(c) She runs out into the snow with Danny
(d) She pleads with him not to hurt her

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

11. What does Lloyd tell Jack that the manager is interested in?
(a) Wendy
(b) Shockley
(c) Danny
(d) Hallorann

12. How is Hallorann forced off the road on the way to the Overlook?
(a) The woman from Room 217 appears
(b) A hedge lion
(c) A snowplow
(d) A swarm of wasps

13. Who does Jack begin to blame for all the trouble at the hotel?
(a) Ullman
(b) Lloyd
(c) Shockley
(d) Danny

14. Where does Dick Hallorann work after the tragedy at the Overlook?
(a) A bed and breakfast inn in Vermont
(b) A restaurant in Colorado
(c) A small resort in Maine
(d) A diner in New York

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Wendy get away from Jack?

2. What does Wendy vow to do if Danny is in danger?

3. What happens to Lloyd when Jack asks what the manager wants with his son?

4. What is the terrible dream Danny awakens from?

5. What happens when Danny tries to call Hallorann for help?

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