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

2. What is the terrible dream Danny awakens from?
(a) He dreams that Jack hits him with a mallet
(b) He dreams that he and his mother watch as the hotel burns to the ground, seeing Jack on fire
(c) He dreams that the dead woman in Room 217 strangled him
(d) He dreams that the hedge lion ripped him to pieces

3. What does Jack tell Danny when he catches him?
(a) He is taking Danny and Wendy away
(b) To run and that he loves him
(c) He is going to kill Wendy
(d) He is going to kill Danny

4. What does Grady tell Jack he has to do?
(a) Write a history of the Overlook
(b) Find Ullman
(c) Discipline Wendy and Danny
(d) Destroy the scrapbook

5. How does Wendy ward off Jack?
(a) She grabs the mallet and hits him
(b) She stabs him in the back with a kitchen knife
(c) She throws a chair at him
(d) She hits him with a fireplace poker

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jack decide to do if Wendy asks him why Danny said that he knew about the hedge animals?

2. Why does Danny use his "shining" to call Hallorann?

3. Why does Jack think was the reason his father killed his mother?

4. Why does Jack force Danny to look out the window at the topiary?

5. How far does Hallorann have to detour because of the storm?

Short Essay Questions

1. As Hallorann drives his car up the road to the Overlook, what message does he receive?

2. What happens when the monster invading Jack's body goes into the boiler roo

3. What events take place after Wendy finds Jack drunk on the floor?

4. What does the conversation between Grady and Jack consist of while they are in the Colorado Lounge?

5. What does Hallorann encounter while he is going to the Overlook on the snowmobile?

6. What plans do Wendy have for the future?

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

8. Danny realizes he needs help after Tony explains that he can't come anymore because the spirits in the Overlook won't let him. What does Danny do once he discovers that REDRUM spells MURDER?

9. What reply does Dick Hallorann get from the ranger station when he calls them, asking that they go check on the Torrances?

10. What happens to Danny when he goes out to play in the snow near the topiary?

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