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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Jack's reaction when Wendy tells him for a second time that they have to get off the mountain?
(a) He tells her he will try to think of something
(b) He tells her he is sorry, but he doesn't know what to do
(c) He is angry at her nagging and wants to kill her
(d) He says that he will fix the snowmobile

2. What does Jack yank out of the snowmobile and throw in the snow?
(a) The gas tank
(b) The gearshift
(c) The brake cables
(d) The magneto

3. What advice does Hallorann give Danny before he and Wendy move away?
(a) He advises Danny to forget his father and the pain he caused
(b) He tells Danny to love those who die, but to get on with life
(c) He encourages Danny to dwell on the past and learn from it
(d) He tells Danny to toughen up, putting the past behind him

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

5. How does Hallorann escape from the hedge lion's attack?
(a) He pours gasoline on the lion, setting it on fire
(b) He starts the snowmobile which scares the lion away
(c) He crawls into a crevasse by the road
(d) He uses his power to think it away

6. What does the Overlook tell Hallorann to do when he is in the shed?
(a) To smash the snowmobile
(b) To kill himself
(c) To get away from the hotel
(d) To kill Wendy and Danny

7. What does Jack wonder about Danny's blank face and catatonic state after he goes into Room 217?
(a) He wonders what punishment he should give Danny for trespassing
(b) He is worried that Danny will never be the same
(c) He wonders if Danny never went in Room 217
(d) He thinks Danny might be play-acting to escape punishment

8. What does Danny discover when he tries to escape from Jack through the trapdoor?
(a) Jack has padlocked the trapdoor
(b) The trapdoor is no longer there
(c) He cannot reach the trapdoor
(d) The trapdoor is guarded by a hedge dog

9. Why does Danny run toward the porch of the hotel when he is playing in the snow?
(a) He has a premonition that something is wrong inside
(b) He hears something strange in the playground
(c) He has a terrifying vision
(d) The hedge animals begin chasing him

10. What does Jack say to Danny while he is chasing him with the mallet?
(a) He tells Danny that he is sorry
(b) He tells Danny they will run away from the hotel
(c) He tells Danny to come out and take his medicine for what he did wrong
(d) He tells Danny that Wendy is dead

11. What happens to the boiler as Jack looks over old papers and invoices in the basement?
(a) It shuts down
(b) It catches fire
(c) It explodes
(d) It starts squealing and clanking

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

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

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

15. What does Wendy find when she goes to make lunch?
(a) Jack, on the floor beside the bar
(b) A hedge lion in the lobby
(c) Ullman, on the front steps
(d) The front door is open

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Danny and Wendy try to drown out Jack's screams?

2. What excuse does Hallorann tell his boss to get three days off to go help Danny?

3. Halloran points toward the playground and what does Danny see?

4. What does Danny wonder when Wendy tells him they will get out in the spring?

5. What does Wendy remember that gets her excited?

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