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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 was Richard Pine's former name?
(a) Richard Pinetello.
(b) Richard Pinzetti.
(c) Robert Pine.
(d) Robert Pinzetti.

2. Richard Pine's story details the accounts of whom?
(a) A common handyman.
(b) A survivor of WWII.
(c) An embezzling real estate manager.
(d) A disgraced surgeon.

3. What does the milkman discover at the house with the cancellation note?
(a) A human foot.
(b) A young girl wandering alone.
(c) A murder.
(d) A poisonous snake he didn't have in his collection.

4. Where is the narrator in "Nona" sitting as he considers events in his life?
(a) In a jail cell.
(b) In his masion.
(c) In a spaceship.
(d) At home with his wife and two children.

5. Whose name does Aunt Flo tell George to invoke?
(a) Beelzebub's.
(b) God's.
(c) Hastur's.
(d) Jesus's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to McCutchson?

2. What kind of problem did Henry admit he had that contributed to his scheme against Thorpe?

3. What does Quentin see when he enters Uncle Otto's house after buying groceries for him?

4. What happens to Gramma while George is fixing them dinner?

5. What does the captain of the rescue ship do when Rand refuses to leave?

Short Essay Questions

1. "For Owen" seems oddly placed in this collection of stories. Why might King have placed a story about his young son in the midst of more savage and frightening ones?

2. What is an example of personification in the story "Beachworld"? How does it affect the story? Explain why you chose this example.

3. At the end of "Nona," the narrator is surrounded by rats, and Nona herself turns into a huge, disgusting rat. The narrator then embraces the rat and indicates that he is planning suicide. What do you think this story is really about?

4. Identify a simile from "The Reaper's Image" and explain how the simile adds to the description.

5. Reg likely suffers from a serious mental illness, yet Henry continues to encourage Reg's fantasies. What do you think was Henry's motivating factor?

6. There is a rumor in the family that Gramma did something to Franklin to make him die. Do you think the family is just overreacting to their guilt and loss by blaming it on Gramma?

7. Quentin seems terrified of Uncle Otto's truck himself, especially after seeing first hand what happened to Uncle Otto. What does Quentin fear the most?

8. What do you think would be the worst part of being afflicted as Brower is in "The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands"? Use examples from the text to support your theory.

9. What is the significance of the opening in "The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands"?

10. Rocky is dismayed and angered that the milkman, Spike, impregnated his wife. Spike seems not the least bit intimidated, possibly even enjoying Rocky's discomfort. Do you think Spike did what he did in order to specifically anger Rocky, or do you think Spike doesn't care what anyone thinks?

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