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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is it that Jack and Al have in common?
(a) Fondness for VWs
(b) Extramarital affairs
(c) Wealthy ancestors
(d) Alcoholism

2. What is it that scares Danny before his shine ends at the curb?
(a) Redrum redrum redrum written on a bathroom mirror
(b) Tom the drunk
(c) The VW huffing up the street
(d) The word divorce

3. What is Jack's conclusion as the reason he called Ullman?
(a) To report a boiler malfunction
(b) To generally keep in touch
(c) To ask if he could stay on after next May
(d) To be fired while there was still time

4. What thought is Hallorann shining to Danny?
(a) Your father hates you
(b) Pretend illness and get out of Overlook today
(c) Your family is in danger at Overlook
(d) Sure you don't want to go to Florida doc?

5. Why doesn't Danny want to go to his grandmother's?
(a) His grandmother has mean cats
(b) He knows about the hatred between Wendy and her mother
(c) His grandmother's house smells
(d) He doesn't like his grandmother's cooking

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jack's father kill his mother?

2. What is roque?

3. Where do both Danny and Wendy agree to spend the winter?

4. What happens as Danny tests his shining on Hallorann?

5. What is the "bad thing" the maid is showing Hallorann?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Danny imagine is outside his window after Tony warns him not to go to the hotel?

2. What event causes Al Shockley and Jack to swear off drinking?

3. Why does Jack compare his life to "The Great Wasp Nest of Life"?

4. What happens to Danny when he concentrates, thinking very hard?

5. What scares Jack as he turns to look at the topiary from the playground?

6. What does Stephen King compare the Torrance family to as they go into the hotel during the snowstorm?

7. What view do the Torrance's see as they look out the window in the Overlook Hotel?

8. What memory does Jack have that causes him feel worthless and shameful, making him want to drink?

9. What are the contents of the scrapbook Jack discovers in the basement of the Overlook?

10. What does Danny tell Jack and Wendy once he has gained control of himself?

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