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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. What does Robert realize when he takes the bandage off his hand in Part II, Chapter 8?
(a) That his wound healed very quickly, almost too quickly.
(b) That he can't live like this forever.
(c) That his wound hasn't healed.
(d) That he is somehow immune from infection.

2. What does Robert pack in Chapter 2?
(a) A gun.
(b) A suitcase.
(c) A bag of stakes.
(d) A picnic basket.

3. In Part II, Chapter 8, Ben has become inured to what?
(a) Horror movies.
(b) Alcohol.
(c) Fear of death.
(d) The daily sight of walking corpses.

4. Robert resolves to either figure out how to defeat the vampires or ______________________.
(a) Move to the mountains and live off of the land.
(b) Ditch the whole mess, including life.
(c) Nail himself in his house and set it on fire.
(d) Just keep fighting.

5. Who is the author of the book that Robert is reading in Part I, Chapter 3?
(a) Stephen King.
(b) Bram Stoker.
(c) Nathaniel Hawthorne.
(d) Edgar Allan Poe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of car does Robert drive?

2. What do the female vampires do to taunt Robert?

3. What does Robert see as he leaves in his car in Chapter 2?

4. Robert paints his living room wall in Part I, Chapter 6. What does it look like?

5. Whom does Robert call out to at the end of Part I, Chapter 5?

Short Essay Questions

1. Outline Robert's experiments on the female vampire in Part II, Chapter 7.

2. What two important items did the vampires destroy after Robert's watch stopped, and why were they so important?

3. Robert realizes that the vampires' vulnerability lies in their blood. Why does he believe this, and what does he intend to do about it?

4. Why does Robert go to Ben's house after Virginia dies, and what does he find there?

5. In Part I, Chapter 6, what does Robert's new mural represent?

6. What does Robert do in defiance of the law after Virginia dies, and why does he do so?

7. Robert mulls over the ways vampires "die" for the final time. Describe some of the forms these deaths take and Robert's suppositions about why there are different ways of dying for vampires.

8. Describe Robert's efforts to get in his house after his watch stops in Part I, Chapter 5.

9. In Part I, Chapter 4, Robert awakens late in the morning, suffering the effects of a night of drinking too much. His feelings begin to conflict with each other, and he finally gets in his car and drives dangerously and aimlessly. Where does he end up, and what does he do while there?

10. What is Robert Neville's mission in life as described in Part I, Chapter 1?

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