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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much liquor remains in the Colorado Lounge?
(a) Only 3 bottles
(b) Enough to last until next summer
(c) Enough to last at least half the winter months
(d) None

2. What is the last town before Overlook?
(a) Sidewinder Pass
(b) Stovington
(c) Rexall
(d) Ullman Township

3. What does Tony do as he stands at the bus stop down the block?
(a) Insanely laughs in to the darkness
(b) He tells Danny not to go
(c) Grins and slowly walks toward Danny
(d) Signals Danny to join him

4. What thought is Hallorann shining to Danny?
(a) Your father hates you
(b) Pretend illness and get out of Overlook today
(c) Your family is in danger at Overlook
(d) Sure you don't want to go to Florida doc?

5. What is it that scares Danny before his shine ends at the curb?
(a) Redrum redrum redrum written on a bathroom mirror
(b) The word divorce
(c) The VW huffing up the street
(d) Tom the drunk

6. As Danny runs to the door, what does he remember Hallorann told him?
(a) Everything in the hotel is real
(b) Think about something else
(c) Nothing in the hotel can harm him
(d) Close his eyes and everything will go away

7. What happens when Jack covers his eyes and then reopens them?
(a) The hedge animals are back in position
(b) Danny falls in the snow
(c) Snow has begun to fall
(d) The hedge lion moves closer

8. What would Jack do to the topiary animals if he owned the Overlook?
(a) Cut them all down
(b) Hire a professional landscaper to take care of them
(c) Trim them regularly
(d) Fertilize the soil around them

9. What does Jack say he intentionally did to Danny?
(a) Left him alone in the car for long periods
(b) Told him scary stories
(c) Broke his arm
(d) Suggested he was a strange, loser child

10. What happens in the hallway that nearly freezes Danny with terror?
(a) Hundreds of wasps are at the window
(b) The fire hose nozzle plus a short length fall to the carpet
(c) Several guest room doors quickly open and slam shut
(d) He hears band music from earlier decades

11. What does Dr. Edmonds say Danny possesses?
(a) Emotional instability
(b) Extraordinary human perception
(c) Very good memory
(d) Scattered illusions

12. How does Jack respond to Wendy's suggestion Danny get a check-up?
(a) Says all three of them should get a check-up
(b) Wordlessly stalks away
(c) Rambles on about his childhood at Danny's age.
(d) A verbal rant at Wendy

13. What does Wendy do when she gets to Danny?
(a) She faints at the sight of Danny's neck
(b) She picks him up and runs to the bedroom
(c) She yells at Danny for scaring her
(d) She tells Jack to carry Danny to the bedroom

14. Who forces reconciliation between Wendy and her mother?
(a) Al Shockley
(b) Her therapist
(c) Danny
(d) Jack

15. What occurs at the scenic turnout?
(a) Danny realizes REDRUM is at the Overlook
(b) The VW overheats and stalls for hours
(c) Wendy comments on heavy traffic coming from Overlook
(d) Wendy refuses to look at the panorama

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jack see in the bathroom of Room 217 the second time he looks?

2. How does Jack's father kill his mother?

3. As Jack is ready to leave Room 217, what happens?

4. What does Jack dream his father tells him through the radio?

5. What is roque?

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