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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 Trashcan Man’s real name?

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

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

4. Who does Larry Underwood find in his home feverish and delirious?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are the descriptions of the main characters?

3. How did Charlie Campion contract the virus?

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

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

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

7. What made the clock turn red at the tower control room?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Some of the characters discussed, W. B. Yeats' "The Second Coming," poem which was written after the First World War. Do you think that it sets the tone for the entire book?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay analyzing how the author uses characters and behaviors to develop and strengthen the theme of loneliness.

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