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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. What is the surname of the Sheriff who helps the character who was attacked at a bar recover?

2. How many thieves attack one character at the bar?

3. What does Frannie find in her journal that scares her and makes her wonder about Harold?

4. After Lloyd kills the rat, where does he put it?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Randall Flagg's other names?

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

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

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

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

6. Everyone in Ogunquit was either already sick or had been exposed to sick residents by the time the town council decided to blockade the turnpike. Why did no one realized this at the time?

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

8. What kind of people are summoned by Randall Flagg?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Larry Underwood's character development over the course of the story.

Essay Topic 2

Explain the meaning of the book’s title. Does it refer only to the men from Boulder?

Essay Topic 3

Harold Lauder is a morally ambivalent character who arrives at more than one spiritual crossroad in the novel. How do his values determine his choices? What is the consequence of the path he chooses to pursue?

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