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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. Who finds an Irish setter hiking down a New Hampshire road?
(a) Rita Blakemore.
(b) Randall Flagg.
(c) Larry Underwood.
(d) Stu Redman.

2. What model of car collides with a gas pump in the opening scene of the novel?
(a) Chevy.
(b) Van.
(c) Coupe.
(d) Sedan.

3. Which character is the first to realize he or she has immunity to the superflu?
(a) Stu Redman.
(b) Charles Campion.
(c) Wayne Stukey.
(d) Larry Underwood.

4. How does Frannie's father, Peter Goldsmith, die?
(a) Drowned.
(b) Suicide.
(c) Superflu.
(d) Automobile Accident.

5. Where is Larry Underwood's friend, Wayne from?
(a) New York City.
(b) Houston.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) Pheonix.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who arrives to examine Stu Redman at the facility?

2. Where does Mother Abigail live?

3. When Lloyd Henreid is on a killing spree with his buddy Poke, what kind of car are they speeding along in?

4. Toward the end of Lloyd's stay in prison, there is one other prisoner left. For whom does this prisoner continually call out?

5. Stu fears that Elder, one of the remaining doctors, has received orders to what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the border patrol's duty in the city?

2. Even if only 0.6% of the population are immune, should there have been more survivors from Arnette?

3. What was the point of discovering Joe/Leo Rockway's telepathic abilities?

4. The virus killed all its possible hosts well into 99.4%, so how is it still around?

5. Who would side with Randall Flagg other than those who were strong-armed into it?

6. What are Randall Flagg's other names?

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

8. Before being recruited by Flagg, Lloyd Henreid was in prison for what?

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

10. Why did Randall Flagg order everybody on his "side" into the city?

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