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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Burt and Vicky discover about the child that they run down in the street?
(a) He is still alive.
(b) His head is gone.
(c) His throat is cut.
(d) His eyeballs have been gouged out.

2. Who does Harold expect will come to mow his lawn?
(a) A teenager.
(b) The boy who mowed his lawn before.
(c) A professional.
(d) A naked man.

3. What does "strawberry spring" refer to?
(a) A false spring.
(b) The beginning of spring.
(c) A time when people like to eat strawberries.
(d) A time when strawberries are abundant.

4. Where do Burt and Vicky end up while they are driving?
(a) Mountains.
(b) Cornfields.
(c) A lake.
(d) A forest.

5. What is the problem between Burt and Vicky?
(a) Marital discord.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Mistrust.
(d) Miscommunication.

6. Why does Vicky honk the car horn?
(a) Because the police officers discover them.
(b) Because the cornfields have come to life and attack the car.
(c) Because a bunch of kids are converging on the car, attempting to attack.
(d) Because she is impatient and wants to leave.

7. How did the first strawberry spring end?
(a) The storm blew in and the fog went away.
(b) The fog continued to grow.
(c) The storm came.
(d) The strawberries died.

8. What does the narrator of Strawberry Spring suspect?
(a) That his old college roommate is the killer.
(b) That his wife is the killer.
(c) That he is the killer.
(d) That Springheel Jack still exists.

9. What does Larry find out happened to his sister?
(a) She is a showgirl.
(b) She was murdered.
(c) She committed suicide.
(d) She divorced her husband.

10. What does Norris do to Cressner?
(a) Forces him to walk the ledge.
(b) Shoots him.
(c) Knocks him unconscious.
(d) Pushes him off the ledge.

11. What is the consequence that Morrison faces if he gains too much weight?
(a) His daughter will lose her pinky.
(b) He will lose his pinky.
(c) His wife will lose her pinky.
(d) His son will lose his pinky.

12. Which of the following is not something the person who comes to mow Harold's lawn does?
(a) Eats the lawn cuttings like a goat.
(b) He is naked.
(c) Eats a woodchuck.
(d) Eats a squirrel.

13. What did Larry do to save his sister when they were children?
(a) Catch her.
(b) Call their father.
(c) Get another ladder.
(d) Pile hay underneath her.

14. What does Larry find waiting for him when he returns home in The Last Rung on the Ladder?
(a) A newspaper clipping from his sister.
(b) His sister.
(c) A letter from his father.
(d) A letter from his sister.

15. To whom is Jerusalem's Lot rumored to be the home of?
(a) An evil preacher.
(b) A giant worm.
(c) Vampires.
(d) Aliens.

Short Answer Questions

1. What special gift does Ed have?

2. How does Ed help Elizabeth?

3. What does the young man in The Man Who Loved Flowers stop to purchase?

4. In The Woman in the Room, what is Johnny's mother dying of?

5. The records that Burt finds shows that the deaths of the people occurred on exactly what day?

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