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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 city does Starkey learn of a new outbreak in?
(a) Sipe Springs, Texas.
(b) Houston, Texas.
(c) Arlington, Texas.
(d) Corpus Christi, Texas.

2. What is the name of the gas station in Chapter One?
(a) Arco Arnette.
(b) Hapscomb’s Texaco.
(c) Texaco Gas.
(d) Texas Shell.

3. What does Nick Andros take with him to go see Mother Abigail?
(a) Drugs.
(b) Supplies and a bicycle.
(c) A motorcycle.
(d) Bandages.

4. What does Lloyd Henreid use to bang on the bars, hoping for attention?
(a) He yells.
(b) The leg of his cot.
(c) A rock.
(d) Palm of his hands.

5. What kind of shoes does Randall Flagg wear as he walks South on US 51?
(a) Cowboy boots.
(b) Chuck Taylors.
(c) Construction boots.
(d) Bare feet.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has recurring nightmares in which the dark man offers him healing and worldly wealth if he follows him?

2. Which character is the first to realize he or she has immunity to the superflu?

3. What do the inmates not receive any longer in jail?

4. Stu Redman feels like he is trapped in what instead of the hospital?

5. What does Randall Flagg give Lloyd Henreid after he becomes his right hand man?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does King introduce readers to so many different characters early on?

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

3. What does Randall Flagg intend to do with his powers?

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

5. What are Randall Flagg's other names?

6. What purpose does Chapter 8 serve the overall novel?

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

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

9. Does Randall Flagg have to continue his line of evil?

10. Why is Leo Rockway afraid of Harold Lauder?

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