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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Danny realize as he lies down to sleep?
(a) Jack wants to stay in the hotel forever
(b) Wendy wants to stay in the hotel forever
(c) Jack wants to go back to Vermont
(d) Wendy is going insane

2. Why does Jack slap Danny?
(a) Danny refuses to answer Jack's questions
(b) Danny tells Jack that he knows Jack saw the hedge animals move
(c) Danny cries for his blanket
(d) Danny is disrespectful to Wendy

3. What is the premonition Hallorann has after getting the call from Danny?
(a) Goodness
(b) Death
(c) Destruction
(d) Evil

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

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

6. What does Jack see while he is locked in the pantry?
(a) He sees his father crying with guilt for murdering Jack's mother
(b) He sees Ullman grinning
(c) He sees his father's murder of his mother with a cane
(d) He sees Danny laughing at him

7. What is Jack trying to repair to take his family to town?
(a) An old snowplow
(b) The hotel truck
(c) A jeep
(d) A snowmobile

8. Why does Jack think was the reason his father killed his mother?
(a) He was out of his mind
(b) Out of a demand for respect
(c) He lost his temper
(d) He didn't know what he was doing.

9. What does Jack do when Wendy goes to see if he is still in the pantry?
(a) He curses and screams, vowing revenge
(b) He pleads with her to let him out
(c) He cries, saying he is sorry
(d) He attacks Wendy with the mallet, hitting her in the stomach, breaking two ribs

10. What does Wendy vow to do if Danny is in danger?
(a) Take him into the mountains if she has to
(b) Hide in the basement with him
(c) Go to her mothers
(d) Get the snowmobile started and escape

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

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

13. Where is Jack hiding as Hallorann comes up the stairs?
(a) In the elevator
(b) In the pantry
(c) On the roof
(d) In the boiler room

14. Why can't the rangers check on the Overlook?
(a) They are all on a rescue mission
(b) They can't leave the station
(c) There is not a good reason
(d) The storm is too severe

15. What does Hallorann see in the window of the Presidential Suite as the Overlook burns?
(a) He sees the dead woman from Room 217 melting
(b) He sees Jack Torrance burning
(c) He sees a dark shape that looks like a swarming nest of wasps
(d) He sees Lloyd and Mr. Grady screaming

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Wendy, Danny, and Hallorann do in the final paragraph of the story?

2. What happens to Danny when he plays in the concrete ring tunnels?

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

4. What does Jack think about doing when he picks up the roque mallet in the shed?

5. How is Hallorann forced off the road on the way to the Overlook?

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