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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Wendy ward off Jack?

3. What does Jack say is in the elevator?

4. What does Wendy find when she goes to make lunch?

5. What does Hallorann tell Danny to do if he ever needs him?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Danny realizes he needs help after Tony explains that he can't come anymore because the spirits in the Overlook won't let him. What does Danny do once he discovers that REDRUM spells MURDER?

3. What reply does Dick Hallorann get from the ranger station when he calls them, asking that they go check on the Torrances?

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

5. What does Jack do when he finds Wendy in the ballroom?

6. What happens when the monster invading Jack's body goes into the boiler roo

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

8. What plans do Wendy have for the future?

9. 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?

10. What happens to Danny when he goes out to play in the snow near the topiary?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Evaluate the elements of cause and effect in this story using examples from the novel.

2) Choose three events from the story which cause Jack Torrance's life to undergo a change.

3) How does he react to the events and their effects?

4) How does he change emotionally in his own life and in his attitude toward Wendy and Danny?

Essay Topic 2

1) Interpret the feelings Wendy and Jack have for each other in the first part of the novel when Wendy describes how she met Jack.

2) Are their emotions authentic? Explain.

3) Are they truthful with each other? Give examples.

4) Compare these emotions with how they interact later in the novel, after they move to the Overlook.

5) What regrets do they have at the end of the novel with regard to their relationship?

6) How does their relationship differ from the first part of the novel?

Essay Topic 3

1) Analyze the image of the wasp's nest which Jack finds on the roof of the Overlook and how it comes to life in Danny's bedroom to the mention of a wasp's nest by Hallorann at the end of the story.

2) What does the wasp's nest symbolize?

3) What images does Hallorann use to describe the angry wasps in the Overlook's smoking window?

4) How do these images compare to the images of the wasps in Danny's room?

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