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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. What does Randy do when LaVerne is attacked?
(a) He tries to save her.
(b) He pushes her over the edge.
(c) He just watches.
(d) He tries to burn LaVerne's attacker.

2. What does Randy do after 24 hours alone?
(a) He goes mad.
(b) He allows himself to be killed.
(c) He makes a run for it.
(d) He starts paddling the raft.

3. Who takes the gas first in "The Jaunt"?
(a) Mark's wife.
(b) Mark's son.
(c) Mark.
(d) Mark's daughter.

4. Where did the inventor of the jaunt make his discovery?
(a) In a barn.
(b) In a laboratory.
(c) In a space station.
(d) In his kitchen.

5. What remains of Deke after his experience with the object on the lake?
(a) His bathing suit.
(b) His glasses.
(c) His rings.
(d) His bones.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Lina to Richard Hagstrom?

2. What had Mark's son done when the attendants put the mask on him?

3. Who is the subject of Homer's story?

4. Who is Brent Norton?

5. Who is Maureen?

Short Essay Questions

1. Homer compares Mrs. Todd to several goddesses. What is the purpose of this comparison?

2. In "The Mist," what do you think is the underlying message the story conveys to the reader? Cite examples from the story.

3. What is the basic conflict expressed in "The Monkey"? Is there an implied winner? If so, whom or what?

4. Compare/contrast the two rooms in the PAT. Why do you think they are so drastically different?

5. Hyperbole is a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect; an extravagant statement. For example, "The sun was blindingly bright and hotter than ten thousand fires." Give an example of hyperbole from "The Wedding Gig" and give an explanation of why King uses it in this story.

6. "Word Processor of the Gods" could fit into several different genres. Which genre do you think it fits into best and why?

7. Why do you think Charles calls the bathroom the basement in "Here There Be Tygers"?

8. In "Paranoid: A Chant," there are several instances in which the narrator is showing how obviously disturbed he is. Give one such example and tell why you think that example fits.

9. In "Here There Be Tygers", Charles returns to his classroom casually after the deaths of his teacher and classmate. What do you think this implies about what Charles has just experienced?

10. "The Wedding Gig" is rife with metaphors, figures of speech in which an implied comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something in common. For example, "Love is a rose" is a metaphor. Identify a metaphor from "The Wedding Gig" and identify the two things being compared.

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