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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 Charles encounter in the bathroom?
(a) A lion.
(b) A tiger.
(c) A bear.
(d) A beast.

2. What is different about Ophelia every time she returns from one of her trips?
(a) She is weak.
(b) She looks deathly pale.
(c) She looks younger.
(d) She looks wildly invigorated.

3. What ultimately happens to Charles's teacher?
(a) She loses her mind.
(b) She returns to class.
(c) She is eaten by the tiger.
(d) She is fired.

4. Where does Mike originally find the narrator?
(a) Through his cousin.
(b) In a speakeasy.
(c) Through the Yellow Pages.
(d) In jail.

5. What type of band did the main character in "The Wedding Gig" play in?
(a) Country.
(b) Rock.
(c) Swing.
(d) Jazz.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator believe in "Paranoid: A Chant"?

2. How must the passengers make the jaunt?

3. To what does King's friend compare the pay King receives for "Word Processer of the Gods"?

4. Richard deletes Seth and Lina and replaces them with whom?

5. What is Mrs. Carmody rumored to be?

Short Essay Questions

1. Hyperbole is a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect; an extravagant statement. For example, "The sun was blindingly bright and hotter than ten thousand fires." Give an example of hyperbole from "The Wedding Gig" and give an explanation of why King uses it in this story.

2. Homer compares Mrs. Todd to several goddesses. What is the purpose of this comparison?

3. Stephen King is apparently trying to make his reader think when reading "The Jaunt." Do you think King wrote this story with that challenge in mind, or do you think he wrote it for pure entertainment?

4. Compare/contrast the two rooms in the PAT. Why do you think they are so drastically different?

5. What seems to be the factor linking Mrs. Todd and Homer?

6. The creator of the teleportation device used in the jaunt first experimented with mice. What is the significance of the first trip taken by the mice?

7. In "Paranoid: A Chant," there are several instances in which the narrator is showing how obviously disturbed he is. Give one such example and tell why you think that example fits.

8. "The Wedding Gig" is rife with metaphors, figures of speech in which an implied comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something in common. For example, "Love is a rose" is a metaphor. Identify a metaphor from "The Wedding Gig" and identify the two things being compared.

9. What is the significance of the "Execute" button on the word processor, and how does Richard feel when looking at that button for the first time?

10. In "The Raft," Deke twice stops Randy from attempting to save Rachel. Was this the right thing to do, given the circumstances?

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