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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 Wendy find when she goes to make lunch?

2. What is Hallorann thinking when he goes to the equipment shed to get blankets?

3. How do Danny and Wendy try to drown out Jack's screams?

4. What does Danny realize as he lies down to sleep?

5. Why does Danny scream and wake Wendy?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Jack suddenly realize while he is in the basement looking over old rock and roll albums?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Summarize how Stephen King uses local color and imagery to describe the Overlook hotel.

2) Cite descriptive examples of rooms, décor, landscaping, the view, and the weather.

3) Does the imagery King uses depict a clear and accurate picture of the Overlook and surrounding landscape?

Essay Topic 2

1) Give three examples from the novel when Jack Torrance uses poor impulse control.

2) Summarize the reactions to these events by his coworkers, his friend Mr. Shockley, and his family.

3) Analyze the consequences of Jack's actions.

Essay Topic 3

Throughout the novel, Jack is afraid of being like his father.

1) Describe the accomplishments Jack achieves in his lifetime that makes him different from his father.

2) Explain why Jack's actions in the final sections of the story turn his fears about being like his father into reality.

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