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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. In Chapter 40, readers learn Stu's job before the plague, which is what?
(a) Made calculators.
(b) Professor.
(c) Scientist.
(d) Secretary.

2. What town in Texas does the book open in?
(a) Arquette.
(b) Arnette.
(c) Admore.
(d) Arlington.

3. What do the inmates not receive any longer in jail?
(a) Meals.
(b) Towels.
(c) Phone calls.
(d) Blankets.

4. Who does Larry Underwood meet at the New York City Zoo?
(a) A wealthy woman named Rita Blakemoor.
(b) Frannie Goldsmith.
(c) Nick Andros.
(d) A lawyer, Derek.

5. Who does Larry Underwood find in his home feverish and delirious?
(a) His sister.
(b) Stu Redman.
(c) His mother.
(d) His father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of shoes does Randall Flagg wear as he walks South on US 51?

2. Which character gets attacked by townies at the local bar?

3. What is on the front of the First Baptist Church of Atlanta?

4. What does Randall Flagg give Lloyd Henreid after he becomes his right hand man?

5. Nick Andros kills his assailant, Ray Booth, with what object in the jail?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the disease have the nickname 'Captain Trips'?

2. The virus killed all its possible hosts well into 99.4%, so how is it still around?

3. What purpose does Chapter 8 serve the overall novel?

4. Why did Randall Flagg order everybody on his "side" into the city?

5. How did the virus even get to the whole facility?

6. Why did the military creates this highly lethal, highly contagious virus, and deliberately design it to be impossible to vaccinate against?

7. What are the descriptions of the main characters?

8. What are Randall Flagg's other names?

9. What do you think of the government's response to this crisis in this novel so far?

10. Does Randall Flagg have to continue his line of evil?

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