Reading Check and Short Answer questions on key points are designed for guided reading assignments, in-class review, formative assessment, quizzes, and more.

Reading Check

1. What is the name of the project going on across the lake at the military base?

2. What does Brent Norton think when David tells him about the tentacles?

3. How do the people in the market get the pink things off the window glass?

4. What happened to the soldiers?

5. What does Hilda Reppler bring as a weapon?

6. What senses do the monsters use­­ to hunt?

7. Who does Mrs. Carmody want to sacrifice?

8. Where is David writing his story?

Short Answer

Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.

1. Why can’t David call Steff from the market?

2. Why does the frantic woman insist on going out into the fog?

3. Why do the two soldiers at the market kill themselves?

4. Why does Mrs. Carmody tell David and the others not to go out?

Paired Resource

“H.P. Lovecraft, Master of Environmental Horror”

• Both this article and The Mist explore the theme of The Loss of Humanity.
• H.P. Lovecraft’s work, especially the story “The Colour Out of Space,” had a pronounced influence on much of King’s writing.
• This article discusses the elements of environmental horror, especially in “The Colour Out of Space.