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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 does Lloyd Henreid use as a weapon to kill a rat?
(a) A rock.
(b) Cot leg.
(c) His hands.
(d) His pillow.

2. Who has recurring nightmares in which the dark man offers him healing and worldly wealth if he follows him?
(a) Larry Underwood.
(b) Rita Blakemore.
(c) Mother Abigail.
(d) Nick Andros.

3. When Larry leaves California, where does he end up going?
(a) Rhode Island.
(b) Massachusetts.
(c) New York.
(d) Conneticut.

4. What does Randall Flagg give Lloyd Henreid after he becomes his right hand man?
(a) A pendant.
(b) Money.
(c) Black boots.
(d) A car.

5. What does Randall Flagg offer Lloyd Henreid if he becomes his right hand man?
(a) A car.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Food.
(d) Money.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has their first dream of Mother Abigail and the Dark Man?

2. Who is the father of Frannie's baby?

3. How many of the individuals within the car are already dead before hitting the gas pump?

4. What is the name of the government project that inadvertently releases Captain Trips?

5. Who kills themselves by overdosing on drugs?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the descriptions of the main characters?

2. Why does Flagg have an alias with the surname "Freemantle" and no one notes that?

3. What is the setting of the opening scene in the book?

4. Why exactly is the U.S. government being so obstructive in the face of Armageddon during the plague?

5. Why did Glen Bateman get out of the city early?

6. How did the virus even get to the whole facility?

7. Why did the military creates this highly lethal, highly contagious virus, and deliberately design it to be impossible to vaccinate against?

8. What do you think of the government's response to this crisis in this novel so far?

9. Does Mother Abigail represent religious/spiritual elements?

10. What happened to the doctor in the jail with Nick Andros?

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