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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Danny when he plays in the concrete ring tunnels?

2. What does Jack do when he gets out of the pantry?

3. What does Jack have to promise Grady to get him to open the pantry door?

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

5. What does Jack wonder about Danny's blank face and catatonic state after he goes into Room 217?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jack do as he tries to kill Danny, and Danny tells him he is not his Daddy?

2. What does Jack see and hear when he goes to the Colorado Lounge?

3. What does Jack suddenly realize while he is in the basement looking over old rock and roll albums?

4. What is Dick Hallorann's reaction when he hears Danny's pleas for help in his head?

5. What do Jack, Wendy, and Danny hear when Danny awakens them in the night?

6. What does Danny think about as he and Wendy wait in the bedroom with a kitchen knife in Wendy's hand?

7. Jack goes to the equipment shed and finds the snowmobile. What does he decide to do after he finds all the parts he needs to get the Skidoo running?

8. What advice does Hallorann give to Danny while they are living in Maine?

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

10. How does Hallorann escape from the hedge lion's attack?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Analyze the resolution of the story as it relates to each of the characters in the novel.

2) Explain the metamorphosis each of them experiences in the final chapter.

3) Describe how the image of Danny's fishing gives hope to both the reader and the surviving characters.

Essay Topic 2

1) Analyze Jack's final acts in the story.

2) Was his character completely evil in the end?

3) Justify the answer with examples from the story.

4) What alternatives did he have at the climax of the story?

Essay Topic 3

1) Evaluate the relationship between Danny and his mother, Wendy.

2) How does Jack affect their relationship with one another?

3) What is it that causes Wendy to worry so much about Danny?

4) Give examples from the story of how they interact with one another.

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