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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. For how long was Fischer in a coma?

2. What color are the draperies in the ballroom?

3. What type of feeling does Florence get from the steam room?

4. Why does Lionel insist Edith do a full body search on Florence?

5. What runs beneath the concrete bridge?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the Belasco House come to be known as "Hell House"?

2. What is Florence's overall impression of the house as she makes her way through it?

3. Who is Florence Tanner, and what is her role in the group going to Hell House? What has she been promised for her participation?

4. Whom does Deutsch choose as partners for Barrett and why?

5. What does Ben do during the plane ride to Hell House, and how does he feel?

6. How does Florence react to the steam room and wine cellar? What seems to trigger her reactions, and what does she say will "cure" the house?

7. How does Florence hear Belasco's voice, even though he has been dead for so long?

8. Why does Lionel Barrett bring his wife, Edith, with him when she has no training in parapsychology or physics?

9. What element is the omnipresent representation in "Hell House"?

10. How did Ben support himself after the first experience at Hell House? Why did he follow this particular path?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Where does the group find the remains of Daniel Belasco? How did he come to be there, and how did he die? Compare/contrast the importance of this discovery to Florence and to Lionel.

Essay Topic 2

Deutsch's death by accidental overdose before the experiment is completed leaves the group without money and basically without a goal now that their benefactor is dead. Yet, they continue the experiment despite the futility of the situation. Why do you think the group continues, even though one of them has died? Do you think that her death is one reason they continue? Specify each individual character's possible motivation and cite examples to support your explanation.

Essay Topic 3

Hell House destroyed one group of analysts 30 years before, leaving only a fifteen-year-old medium as a survivor, badly scarring him physically and mentally. Benjamin Fischer is now choosing to once again enter the place that almost killed him. What do you think his motivation is for joining the group in the latest exploration of Hell House?

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