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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. How does Will react when Mr. Dark say his mother is now a shriveled old woman?

2. What does Will ask his father to say to him?

3. Who is at the door?

4. What book does Mr. Halloway threaten Mr Dark with?

5. What does Mr. Halloway try to destroy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mr. Halloway think is the carnival's method?

2. How does Mr. Halloway get the crowd on his side?

3. What happens when Mr. Halloway shoots the witch?

4. What role does the witch play in Chapter 43?

5. What does Mr. Halloway research at the library?

6. What information about the carnival does Mr. Halloway show Jim and Will?

7. How does Will get Jim off the carousel?

8. How does Mr. Dark find the boys hiding place?

9. What happens at the end of the chapter?

10. How does Mr. Halloway defeat the witch?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Bradbury's characters often have names that describe their character. Choose one of the following names in the novel and talk about what the name says about that person or setting:

1) Jim Nightshade.

2) Green town

3) Jim Fury

Essay Topic 3

Do you think people's memories of their past are accurate? Why do you think Bradbury represents past memories as potentially dangerous? Why do so many characters in the book find it so difficult to move away from their past?

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