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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 Will hear his father burn?

2. What kind of song does Mr. Halloway hear a man humming?

3. What does Mr. Coogar turn into?

4. What does Jim decide to take off the roof of his house?

5. What month does the novel begin in?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Jim and Will react differently to meeting Robert?

2. What scares Jim and Will about the train?

3. What does Jim decide to do at the end of Chapter 9?

4. How do Will and Jim turn Mr. Cooger into a 130-year-old man?

5. How does Mr. Halloway react when Will notices him looking at the carnival poster?

6. What does the lightning rod look like?

7. What happens when Cooger rides on the carousel?

8. How do Will and Jim react when the salesman tells them the storm will hit Jim's house?

9. What does the reader learn about Jim in Chapter 9?

10. What wakes up Jim and Will during the night?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify the main themes of the story. In what way are these themes relevant to the time period? How does Bradbury use character and setting to express these themes?

Essay Topic 2

In 1983 SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES was made into a film starring Jason Robards. Why do you think the themes and ideas in the book were still relevant 25 years later? How did the filmmakers adapt the themes to fit in with the new environment? How did these changes affect the meaning of the story?

Essay Topic 3

SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES greatly influenced modern horror. Choose a book written after the novel that you think was influenced by it and discuss there similarities in terms of

a) plot

b) character

c) themes.

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