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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who disappears while Matt and Ben get to know one another?
(a) Weasel.
(b) Dud.
(c) Mike Ryerson.
(d) Eva.

2. Who died in Marsten House in 1939?
(a) Billy and Bobby.
(b) Hubert and Birdie.
(c) Ben and Carol.
(d) Susan and Ann.

3. Who dared nine-year-old Ben Mears to go inside Marsten House?
(a) A group of girls, one of whom Ben liked.
(b) A group of older boys who wanted him to prove himself brave.
(c) A group of local boys with whom he wanted to play pirates.
(d) A group of bullies who were threatening to beat Ben up.

4. Who was it that died in the fatal motorcycle accident in which one of the characters of the novel was driving?
(a) Ben Mears' wife.
(b) Straker's sister.
(c) Dud Rogers' cousin.
(d) Mike Ryerson's brother.

5. Who is the local gossip in Jerusalem's Lot?
(a) Ann Norton.
(b) Eva Miller.
(c) Sandy MacDougall.
(d) Mabel Werts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Father Callahan spill that he carefully cleans up to keep his housekeeper from learning about it?

2. Why does Marjorie Glick report her sons missing?

3. What makes the two men Larry Crockett hires for Straker feel uneasy, afraid?

4. What does Mike Ryerson find when he goes to work at the cemetery in Chapter 3?

5. Who asks a friend in the FBI to investigate the backgrounds of Ben Mears, Straker, and Barlow in the aftermath of the search for the missing boy?

(see the answer key)

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