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

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

3. How does Wendy ward off Jack?
(a) She hits him with a fireplace poker
(b) She grabs the mallet and hits him
(c) She stabs him in the back with a kitchen knife
(d) She throws a chair at him

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

5. What does Danny wonder when Wendy tells him they will get out in the spring?
(a) He wonders is his father will get better
(b) He wonders if Wendy will turn against him
(c) He wonders if he will be attacked by hedge animals
(d) He wonders if there will ever be a spring

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hallorann get a snowmobile in the middle of a storm?

2. How does Wendy get away from Jack?

3. What does Jack have to promise Grady to get him to open the pantry door?

4. What sound awakens the Torrances?

5. What does Hallorann see as he turns into the Overlook drive?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Dick Hallorann's reaction when he hears Danny's pleas for help in his head?

2. What do Jack, Wendy, and Danny hear when Danny awakens them in the night?

3. What deal does Jack make with Grady if he lets him out of the pantry?

4. What does the conversation between Grady and Jack consist of while they are in the Colorado Lounge?

5. What does Jack do as he tries to kill Danny, and Danny tells him he is not his Daddy?

6. What events take place after Wendy finds Jack drunk on the floor?

7. Jack feels Wendy is nagging him when she continues to ask about finding the snowmobile to get away from the Overlook? As Jack dwells on what she has said, what solution does he come up with?

8. What does Hallorann encounter while he is going to the Overlook on the snowmobile?

9. What is Danny dreaming when he awakens from a nightmare in the bedroom?

10. Why is Hallorann so frustrated when he gets off the plane in Denver?

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