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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 Will do when Jim spits in his face?

2. What do Jim and Will usually use to communicate to each other during the night?

3. Who does Jim's mother say Jim looks like?

4. What does Halloway think women are?

5. Why does Will decide to stay at the carnival?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Will and Jim turn Mr. Cooger into a 130-year-old man?

2. How does Mr. Halloway react when Will notices him looking at the carnival poster?

3. What does Mr. Halloway see in the shop window on the way back from work?

4. What does the lightning rod salesman think about the woman he sees in the shop window?

5. What wakes up Jim and Will during the night?

6. How do Will and Jim react when the salesman tells them the storm will hit Jim's house?

7. What shocking things do Will and Jim see when they go back to the carnival with the police?

8. What are Jim and Will's feelings about the Mirror Maze?

9. What does Mr. Halloway see in the shop window?

10. What story do Will and Jim tell the lightning rod salesman?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES is part of the horror genre.

1) What are the conventions of the horror genre in terms of character, language and plot?

2) In what way does SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES help to set the template for similar novels? Do modern novels still use the ideas used in the novel?

Essay Topic 2

Examine Bradbury's representation of carnival people and their lives.

1) How are carnival people's lives and beliefs different from average people's beliefs?

2) Why does Bradbury represent carnival people as evil?

Essay Topic 3

In 1983 SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES was made into a film starring Jason Robards. Why do you think the themes and ideas in the book were still relevant 25 years later? How did the filmmakers adapt the themes to fit in with the new environment? How did these changes affect the meaning of the story?

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