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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Wendy get away from Jack?
(a) She locks him in the bedroom
(b) She pushes him down the stairs
(c) She knocks him unconscious
(d) She scrambles into the bedroom and locks herself in the bathroom

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

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

4. 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) He thinks how lucky he is to have met Danny
(c) Blood and death fill his mind
(d) He wishes he didn't have any powers

5. What is it that Danny says to get Jack to leave him alone?
(a) The boiler has not been checked and might explode
(b) Mr. Hallorann is coming up the stairs
(c) The time Jack broke his arm
(d) Wendy is behind Jack with a knife

6. Why does Danny use his "shining" to call Hallorann?
(a) To tell his to stay away from the hotel
(b) To tell him they might need his help
(c) To let him know that everything is okay
(d) To help them get out of the Overlook

7. What do Wendy and Danny do with Jack?
(a) They lock him in the basement
(b) The lock him in the storage shed
(c) They lock him in the pantry
(d) They throw him out in the snow

8. 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 has been away but now he is back
(d) He says that he never should have come to the hotel

9. What happens to Lloyd when Jack asks what the manager wants with his son?
(a) Lloyd disappears
(b) Lloyd turns into a snake
(c) Lloyd turns red with anger
(d) Lloyd's face changes shape, cracking and turning yellow

10. What does Jack say is in the elevator?
(a) A fire hose
(b) A broken cable
(c) Nothing
(d) A leaky pipe

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

12. Where does Danny find Wendy and Hallorann?
(a) Locked in the bedroom
(b) In Room 217
(c) In the pantry
(d) On the second floor

13. Who tells Danny to call for Hallorann?
(a) Ullman
(b) Wendy
(c) Tony
(d) Jack

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

15. What is the terrible dream Danny awakens from?
(a) He dreams that Jack hits him with a mallet
(b) He dreams that the hedge lion ripped him to pieces
(c) He dreams that he and his mother watch as the hotel burns to the ground, seeing Jack on fire
(d) He dreams that the dead woman in Room 217 strangled him

Short Answer Questions

1. When Danny goes into the bathroom, what does he see?

2. Why does Danny run toward the porch of the hotel when he is playing in the snow?

3. How does Hallorann escape from the hedge lion's attack?

4. Why does Jack think was the reason his father killed his mother?

5. What does Jack yank out of the snowmobile and throw in the snow?

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