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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jack do when Wendy goes to see if he is still in the pantry?
(a) He pleads with her to let him out
(b) He curses and screams, vowing revenge
(c) He attacks Wendy with the mallet, hitting her in the stomach, breaking two ribs
(d) He cries, saying he is sorry

2. What does Jack say to Danny while he is chasing him with the mallet?
(a) He tells Danny to come out and take his medicine for what he did wrong
(b) He tells Danny that he is sorry
(c) He tells Danny that Wendy is dead
(d) He tells Danny they will run away from the hotel

3. What does Jack have to promise Grady to get him to open the pantry door?
(a) He will leave the Overlook
(b) He will kill Wendy and bring Danny to the manager
(c) He will kill himself
(d) He will kill Wendy and Danny

4. What does Wendy do when she gets away from Jack?
(a) She tells Jack she is sorry
(b) She runs out into the snow with Danny
(c) She pleads with him not to hurt her
(d) She smashes a wine bottle over his head

5. What does Jack decide to do if Wendy asks him why Danny said that he knew about the hedge animals?
(a) He will not answer her
(b) He will say that Danny is schizophrenic
(c) He will tell Wendy everything he knows about the strange events in the Overlook
(d) He will deny it

6. What does Danny wonder when Wendy tells him they will get out in the spring?
(a) He wonders is his father will get better
(b) He wonders if Wendy will turn against him
(c) He wonders if there will ever be a spring
(d) He wonders if he will be attacked by hedge animals

7. What happens when Wendy offers to help Jack upstairs?
(a) He grabs Wendy's foot and then tries to strangle her
(b) He thanks her for the help
(c) He is unable to get up
(d) He passes out

8. What does Hallorann see in the window of the Presidential Suite as the Overlook burns?
(a) He sees a dark shape that looks like a swarming nest of wasps
(b) He sees the dead woman from Room 217 melting
(c) He sees Lloyd and Mr. Grady screaming
(d) He sees Jack Torrance burning

9. Why does Jack think was the reason his father killed his mother?
(a) Out of a demand for respect
(b) He didn't know what he was doing.
(c) He lost his temper
(d) He was out of his mind

10. What does Jack do to Wendy when he finds her?
(a) He tells her that he has killed Danny
(b) He says that Hallorann is not coming
(c) He crashes the mallet into her spine
(d) He tells her that he is sorry

11. Where does Dick Hallorann work after the tragedy at the Overlook?
(a) A bed and breakfast inn in Vermont
(b) A small resort in Maine
(c) A diner in New York
(d) A restaurant in Colorado

12. What do Wendy and Danny do with Jack?
(a) They lock him in the basement
(b) They throw him out in the snow
(c) The lock him in the storage shed
(d) They lock him in the pantry

13. Why does Danny scream and wake Wendy?
(a) He lost his shining
(b) He hears a mallet hitting the walls
(c) He sees a vision that terrifies him
(d) He is afraid of her

14. Who hands Jack a martini, compliments of the manager?
(a) Hallorann
(b) Lloyd
(c) Ullman
(d) Mr. Grady

15. Who does Hallorann call for help to check on the Overlook?
(a) Ullman
(b) Al Shockley
(c) The rangers in Sidewinder
(d) Durkin

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Danny and Wendy react after Jack tells them he found nothing in Room 217?

2. What do Hallorann, Wendy, and Danny see as they are riding in the snowmobile on the way to Sidewinder?

3. Why does Jack slap Danny?

4. What do Wendy, Danny, and Hallorann do in the final paragraph of the story?

5. What does Jack yank out of the snowmobile and throw in the snow?

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