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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. Which character kills Horgan with a ball of lightning?
(a) Harold Lauder.
(b) Randall Flagg.
(c) The Rat Man.
(d) Julie Lawry.

2. Who develops appendicitis and dies?
(a) Mark Braddock.
(b) Harry.
(c) Sheriff Jones.
(d) Larry Underwood.

3. When Harold arrives home at the end of the day, he finds Nadine what?
(a) Writing in her diary.
(b) Dancing.
(c) Sitting on his front step.
(d) Making Cookies.

4. Who tells Tom Cullen if he sees a lone person on the road, he is to kill him?
(a) Rita Blakemore.
(b) Lloyd Henreid.
(c) Randall Flagg.
(d) Stu Redman.

5. Who of these is not sent to Vegas (by the Free Zone Committee) as a spy?
(a) Tom Cullen.
(b) Harold Lauder.
(c) Judge Farris.
(d) Dayna Jurgens.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the only member of the Free Zone Committee who returns to Boulder?

2. Flagg tells a group of sentries posted on the eastern border of Oregon to look out for what?

3. Randall Flagg, also known as The Dark Man, was the leader of the evil forces in the West and appeared in the plague survivors' dreams. Yet his power weakened near the end of the story. Which of the following was NOT a sign of his weakening power?

4. Nick, Stu, and Ralph instruct Tom to return to Boulder during what?

5. Who spies on Frannie Goldsmith and Stu Redman?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Randall ponder when he spends the evening alone in Emigrant Valley, roasting a rabbit over a campfire?

2. Why does Tom Cullen leave Las Vegas?

3. What is the Hand of God?

4. How does Nick Andros help Tom Cullen?

5. What did Stu Redman die of?

6. Do Larry and Ray survive the nuke?

7. Which characters survive at the end of the novel?

8. What does Glen mean when he called Flagg "the last magician of rational thought"?

9. What does the group take to stop their dreams about the Dark Man?

10. How is "The Kid" killed?

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