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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. The first sentence of Act I: I Contain Multitudes states that Chuck was looking forward to which event?
2. On what object does the narrator of Act I: I Contain Multitudes blame the deaths of Chuck's parents?
3. When Dan's grandson calls Holly in the section called "December 22, 2020," she asks him to tell Dan what fact about the Outsider?
4. Dan comes to believe by the end of the section entitled "December 16, 2020" that which character is an Outsider?
5. In the section entitled "December 14, 2020," Holly researches Chet Ondowsky and discovers that his real name is what?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is revealed to be the true source of Chuck's crescent-shaped scar?
2. For what reason does King include an allusion to Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" in Act I: I Contain Multitudes of the story "The Life of Chuck"?
3. How does King juxtapose an everyday setting with a mood befitting a horror story?
4. Where does Holly arrange to meet the Outsider when he agrees to her demand for $300,000?
5. What is the significance of the term "orphant" (150) in Act I: I Contain Multitudes in the story entitled "The Life of Chuck"?
6. Why does Holly travel to Portland, Maine in the story "If It Bleeds"?
7. Who are Pete and Jerome within the story "If It Bleeds"?
8. What is the significance of the phrase "Twirlers and Spinners" (143) in Act I: I Contain Multitudes of "The Life of Chuck"?
9. How does the reader learn the way in which Chuck incurred the scar on his hand?
10. What does King mean when he writes of the cupola, "But fascination is fear's twin brother" (137)?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What ultimate message is King sending about the nature and value of compassion?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss King’s use of metaphor, simile, imagery, and other literary devices as a means to send particular thematic messages within the narrative of If It Bleeds.
Essay Topic 3
How does King use sensory details in order to strengthen the text’s messages or to elicit a particular emotional response from the reader? Discuss at least two passages that include the use of sensory details and pull quotes from these passages in If It Bleeds to support your claim.
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