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

2. 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

3. How does Jack feel when Wendy asks him how he is going to get them off the mountain?
(a) He slaps her
(b) He laughs angrily, telling Wendy they are snowed in
(c) He apologizes for not making arrangements for getting them into town
(d) He ignores her

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

5. 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 to come out and take his medicine for what he did wrong
(c) He tells Danny that Wendy is dead
(d) He tells Danny they will run away from the hotel

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Danny scream and wake Wendy?

2. How does Wendy ward off Jack?

3. Why does Jack slap Danny?

4. What does Jack think the hotel will do after he releases the pressure in the boiler?

5. How does Jack think Danny bruised his neck?

Short Essay Questions

1. What advice does Hallorann give to Danny while they are living in Maine?

2. Jack goes to the equipment shed and finds the snowmobile. What does he decide to do after he finds all the parts he needs to get the Skidoo running?

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

4. Does Wendy escape from Jack after she stabs him?

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

6. What goes through Hallorann's mind when he goes into the equipment shed to get blankets for Wendy and Danny?

7. What do Hallorann, Wendy, and Danny see as they are riding in the snowmobile on the way to Sidewinder?

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

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

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

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