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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. In Part I, Chapter 6, what had been found in Colorado?
(a) An image of the Virgin Mary at Red Rocks.
(b) An ancient mummy, thought to be cursed.
(c) A strain of giant grasshoppers.
(d) Gold.

2. What happens to make Robert bleed during his mad dash home after his watch stops?
(a) Ben Cortman scratches him.
(b) He cuts himself climbing over a fence.
(c) He crashes into a pole and hits his head on the steering wheel.
(d) A female vampire bites him.

3. How does Robert kill three vampires in Part I, Chapter 5?
(a) He runs them over with his car.
(b) He decapitates them with an ax.
(c) He sprays them with acid.
(d) He shoots them through the heart.

4. As Part I, Chapter 6 opens, what year is it?
(a) 1982.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1966.
(d) 1976.

5. What does Robert get out of his dresser drawer after he sees the vampires destroying his personal property?
(a) A Bible.
(b) Pistols.
(c) A bottle of Jack Daniels.
(d) His stash of stakes.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part I, Chapter 5, when does Robert arrive home?

2. What happens to people infected in Chapter 1?

3. In Part II, Chapter 8, Ben jumps over what object?

4. What does Robert do when he sees Ben jump over the object in Part II, Chapter 8?

5. In what year was "I Am Legend" written?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Robert's relationship with Ben Cortman before Ben became ill.

2. Why is the discovery of the effect that sunlight has on vampires an important turning point for Robert?

3. Describe Robert Neville as he is introduced to the reader in Part I, Chapter I.

4. Of whom does Ben Cortman begin to remind Robert, and what is Robert's reaction to this realization?

5. In Part II, Chapter 10, when Robert realizes that his isolated experiments are useless and he needs to study the problem scientifically, where does he go, and what does he do there?

6. In Part I, Chapter 3, several things drive Robert to despair. Describe one.

7. What is allyl sulphide, and how is it prepared?

8. In Part I, Chapter 6, what has Robert done to repair his home?

9. 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.

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

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