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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. How does Elizabeth keep Ed at arm's length?

2. What does Norris do to Cressner?

3. When Booth, Tookey, and the man arrive at the car, what do they discover?

4. On the first night of the strawberry spring in the narrator's past, what is discovered?

5. What is The Woman in the Room about?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the symbol of the ladder in The Last Rung on the Ladder?

2. In Quitters, Inc. what sight causes Morrison to want to go to the police and not accept the program he signed up for?

3. What does Children of the Corn suggest cornfields are a symbol of?

4. What is the basic premise of I Know What You Need?

5. What type of person is Stan Norris in The Ledge?

6. What does the ledge symbolize in the story The Ledge?

7. What is Harold horrified to learn about the man he hired to mow his lawn in The Lawnmower Man?

8. What does "strawberry spring" refer to?

9. What can we tell about Booth and Tookey's characters when they decide to help the man in One for the Road?

10. What evidence points to the narrator of Strawberry Spring being the serial killer?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The death of the main character is common in horror stories. Compare and contrast the deaths of several characters in Night Shift. Why did the character die and how? What purpose did the death serve and what message does it send to the reader?

Essay Topic 2

Jerusalem's Lot is a location used in two of the stories, Jerusalem's Lot and One for the Road. Compare and contrast the setting in these two tales and discuss how location serves as a character. How does having the setting act as a character add conflict to the story?

Essay Topic 3

Several of the stories in Night Shift have narrators that the reader is led to believe might be unreliable, but later realize the narrator could be telling the truth. Discuss the concept of using the narrator as a tool to tell a story and the idea behind having an unreliable narrator, using examples from the book.

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