The Stephen King's 'The Stand' Quiz

The so-called "super-flu" kills millions of people and brings on the apocalypse.

By the time Trips has run its course, human beings have become a rarity on terra firma.

The project was a prescient lesson in how not to handle biological weapons.

Like the Tolkien tale, it covers an immense swath of geographical and psychological territory.

Flagg eventually appears in seven King novels, but his first (and perhaps most powerful) appearance is in "The Stand."

Rob Lowe plays a deaf man named Nick Andros and Molly Ringwald is Frannie Goldsmith.

He envisions ever larger and more destructive conflagrations.

The sprawling epic consumes not only a lot of time, but a lot of trees, too.

She is surely the oldest remaining member of the human race.

She calls survivors to her residence in Hemingford Home, Nebraska.

For many authors, those 400 pages would have been a book in and of itself.

"The Stand" was an epic story that came along relatively early in his career.

The plot plays off of one of his earlier stories, called "Night Surf."

In the TV series, though, the dog looks suspiciously like a golden retriever.

She is, mercifully, already dead before the apocalypse strikes.

An afflicted military man inadvertently spreads the virus to the general public and then all hell breaks loose.

The stark desert setting, of course, is fitting for the book's desolate tone.

He wears silver dollars around his neck and skulks around in truly creepy fashion.

His immunity, and his leadership, propel him to great importance in the course of the story.

He goes on a murder spree and faces punishment before the flu strikes and subsequently gives him a new lease on life.

The manuscript was literally too long; the publishers printing presses couldn’t create a 1,200-page book.

The Kid is a raving psychopath with a taste for alcohol.

The Boulder Free Zone is a buffer of sanity in a world that has gone completely mad.

Harold's taste for revenge builds, and Flagg uses him in an attempt to destroy the Free Zone.

King devised the title after listening to the lyrics for "Jungleland."

King has struggled with writer's block intermittently throughout his career.

His massive blaze burns most of the city to the ground.

Just like the author who created them, they wander back East to enjoy what they hope will be a quieter life.

He directs the words at Randall Flagg, the object of his zealous devotion.

But "The Dark Man" is another moniker for him, and probably far more fitting.