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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Harold decide to hire someone to mow his lawn?
(a) His lawn has gotten too wild to ignore.
(b) There are wild animals living in his lawn.
(c) His wife wants the lawn mowed.
(d) The neighbors complain that his lawn is dirty.

2. What do the people nickname the killer in Strawberry Spring?
(a) Spring Jack.
(b) Strawberry Jack.
(c) Springheel Jack.
(d) Strawberry Spring Jack.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Larry think back on in The Last Rung of the Ladder?

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

3. How does Ed help Elizabeth?

4. What does Johnny find in his mother's medicine cabinet?

5. What location does the man in One for the Road say he left his wife and daughter near?

Short Essay Questions

1. What decision does Johnny struggle with in The Woman in the Room?

2. What is the main purpose of The Man Who Loved Flowers?

3. What do people think about the young man in The Man Who Loved Flowers and is their assumption correct?

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

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

6. What has ironically turned into a source of danger in One for the Road and how?

7. What convinces Morrison to quit smoking?

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

9. How can The Woman in the Room still be considered a horror story though it is not the traditional kind?

10. What do we learn of Katrina's fate in The Last Rung on the Ladder?

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