107 pages 3 hours read

Stephen King

Misery

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

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Answer Key

Part 1, Chapters 1-36

Reading Check

1. He is in a car accident that Annie saves him from. (Part 1, Chapters 2-5)

2. A powerful pain reliever called Novril (Part 1, Chapter 4)

3. Annie says he is responsible for the mess after she broke the bowl because she was mad at him. (Part 1, Chapter 9)

4. Paul killed off Misery while she was in childbirth. (Part 1, Chapter 12)

5. His wheelchair and a typewriter (Part 1, Chapters 21-23)

6. She expects him to write Misery’s Return. (Part 1, Chapter 23)

7. He tells her she bought the wrong kind of paper. (Part 1, Chapter 29)

8. He leaves a bobby pin in the lock and a scuff mark on the door from his wheelchair. (Part 1, Chapter 34)

Short Answer

1. She forces him to form a dependency on her. (Part 1, various chapters)

2. He decides that because her personality forbids certain lines of thought, he will patronize her with flattery to manipulate her into treating him better. (Part 1, various chapters)

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