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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 Mike fire his gun at while in the belfry?

2. Who is Mike advised to ask about the soldier?

3. Where do the boys go from the belfry in Chapter 41?

4. What is within the bell in Chapter 41?

5. What does Dr. Roon do to Dale at the beginning of Chapter 41?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Jim go into the woods in Chapter 23? What does Cordie tell Jim when they meet in the woods?

2. How do Cordie and Kevin start a fire at the school?

3. Describe Mike's encounter with Father Cavenaugh in Chapter 40.

4. Why do the boys go camping in Chapter 29?

5. How do Kevin and Cordie fight off the creatures who come after them in Chapter 38, 39, and 40?

6. How do the boys manage to get away from Dr. Roon?

7. Who did Mr. Ashley-Montague Sr. and Jr. arrange to have arrested for the disappearances and murders of children around 1900? What punishment did this person receive?

8. What happens to the boys after Dale's mother leaves to give Dale's uncle some medicine in Chapter 36?

9. What strange occurrence takes place at Michelle Staffney's birthday party?

10. What does Mike imagine while delirious with fever in Chapter 23?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the motif of death in the novel "Summer of Night." How does Simmons illustrate the death motif throughout the novel? What do the characters think of death? How do the characters react to the deaths? Why are these deaths occurring?

Essay Topic 2

The Borgia Bell is a bell shrouded with mystery and history. What do the boys discover of the bell's past? What connections does the bell have to death and evil? How does the bell influence the happenings of the small town?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the supernatural elements in the novel. What are some examples of the supernatural in the novel? What can the supernatural beings do that humans cannot? How do these supernatural beings overcome the principle characters with their supernatural abilities?

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