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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 name of Gwendy’s assistant in the Senate?

2. With which of the following does Chapter 36 begin?

3. With which of the following does Chapter 31 begin?

4. As which of the following does Gwendy misidentify the mascot of the University of Maine?

5. With which of the following does Chapter 33 begin?

Short Essay Questions

1. What powers the rocket with which Gwendy has been sent into space?

2. What travel to Maine does Gareth note having undertaken?

3. How does Gwendy report regarding the Vice President?

4. What reason does Gwendy note for believing Gareth’s story about meeting Bobby?

5. How is the subject of interrogation at Derry interrogated?

6. What fate is posited for the person whose cell phone footage Charlotte sends to Gwendy?

7. To what does Gwendy attribute the origin of her mental condition?

8. Of what does Gwendy dream on her fourth night on the space station?

9. What information does Charlotte provide in response to Gwendy’s appended query?

10. In what ways does Gwendy perceive the space station like a haunted building in a movie?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The novel makes much of the price required for the use of the puzzle-box. Does the novel consider that cost worth paying? What in the text suggests as much, and how?

Essay Topic 2

A number of readers note the prevalence of overt real-world political messaging in the text. Does the presence of such add to or detract from the effect of the novel on your personal reading? How so?

Essay Topic 3

Explicate the significance of the name of any one character in the text.

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