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

2. What does Danny discover when he tries to escape from Jack through the trapdoor?

3. Who is it that Danny realizes is chasing him?

4. What does Danny wonder when Wendy tells him they will get out in the spring?

5. What happens when Wendy offers to help Jack upstairs?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Does Wendy escape from Jack after she stabs him?

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

8. 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?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) How does Stephen King use images of darkness, grotesque bodies, and the Danny's visions to convey the tone of the novel?

2) How does the weather add to this tone?

3) Justify the answers with examples from the novel.

Essay Topic 2

1) Summarize how Stephen King uses local color and imagery to describe the Overlook hotel.

2) Cite descriptive examples of rooms, décor, landscaping, the view, and the weather.

3) Does the imagery King uses depict a clear and accurate picture of the Overlook and surrounding landscape?

Essay Topic 3

1) What kind of an emotional impact does "the shining" have on Danny and his parents?

2) How does Danny's attitude toward his power differ from the beginning of the story to the end?

3) How does sharing the power with Mr. Hallorann change Danny's view of it?

4) How does Danny use his powers to resolve the conflict in the story?

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