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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. Who are most often attacked or targeted by an inhuman spirit according to the Warrens at the end of "Art and Apparitions"?

2. Whom did Father Hegan refer Donna, Lou, and Angie to contact about their possessed doll?

3. According to Lorraine, __________ where people spend a third of their life, was an excellent source of vibrations.

4. According to Ed in "A Conjuring Book for Christmas," he always carried a relic of __________for protection.

5. According to the Warrens in "Art and Apparitions," inhuman spirits make all of the following type of sounds except for which one?

Short Essay Questions

1. Did Ed and Lorraine originally set out to make the supernatural their vocation? Explain.

2. How can the Warrens know if an intelligence was truly behind the disturbance, when that external agent was invisible? Give an example.

3. What unusual phenomena occurred when Lorraine tried to call the Hillmans in the beginning of "A Conjuring Book for Christmas"?

4. What was psychokinesis? Explain.

5. Briefly discuss the dreams Lou had because of Annabelle.

6. Was "The Demonologist" based on actual events? What has been altered in the book? Explain.

7. According to the Warrens, was the supernatural a scientific matter?

8. What was the difference between parapsychology and demonology?

9. According to Ed, had apports ever been scientifically analyzed?

10. What did the Warrens learn about ghosts in their early times of paranormal investigation?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Address the style, including the point of view, in which "The Demonologist" was written.

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast two of the Warren's cases found within "The Demonologist."

Essay Topic 3

Explain how demonic spirits are represented in "The Demonologist" and explain how this representation carries into the meaning of the work as a whole.

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