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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Robert getting at Sears?

2. As Part I, Chapter 6 opens, what year is it?

3. What does Robert get at the grocery store in Chapter 2?

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

5. What other important item do the vampires destroy in Part I, Chapter 5?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. In Part I, Chapter 3, what does Robert do to vent his frustration, and what is the source of his frustration?

5. In Part I, Chapter 3, to what does Robert compare the vampires?

6. How does Robert react to the vampire attack after he gets back in his house?

7. Explain a typical day in Robert's life as outlined in Part I, Chapter 2.

8. 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.

9. What oddity does Robert find while looking for a lathe at Sears?

10. In Part II, Chapter 8, Robert continues his investigation into vampires and things which might affect them. Describe one of the additional experiments Robert performs.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Taking into consideration Robert's lack of companionship, why is it important for him to keep a schedule? What might happen if he just drifts through his day? What does a schedule do to keep Robert going? Why would he even bother with no one to work for or live for? Does he have any purpose in life now that his loved ones are gone? If so, what is it? If not, what might serve that purpose?

Essay Topic 2

When Robert meets Ruth, he is wary and has not even the slightest interest in her romantically. Do you think Robert's trust in humans is permanently damaged? He doesn't seem to know whom to trust, if anyone. How do you think he might recover that trust?

Essay Topic 3

What is the purpose served by burning the bodies of the infected? What are the advantages? What are the disadvantages? Do you think it serves its purpose well, or is it pretty much useless? Why?

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