The Mist

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1980

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1. C (Chapter 10)

2. D (Chapter 8)

3. B (Various chapters)

4. D (Various chapters)

5. A (Chapter 2)

6. B (Chapter 4)

7. C (Various chapters)

8. A (Various chapters)

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1. The author is most interested in how different people react to a crisis of this magnitude. The monsters are not as important as the community inside the market and the way that the arbitrary society functions and ultimately breaks down. (Various chapters)

2. Religious extremism can threaten public health and security during times of crisis as people turn to increasingly far-fetched answers for the problems they cannot solve. When logical, sensible responses fail to achieve the desired results, Religious Fanaticism often seems an attractive alternative to reason. (Various chapters)