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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is in the import-export business, according to Parkins' friend at the FBI?
(a) Matt Burke.
(b) Larry Crockett.
(c) Barlow.
(d) Ben Mears.

2. Where do Ben and Matt agree to take Susan that Friday night?
(a) To Marsten House.
(b) Out dancing.
(c) To Bangor for a movie.
(d) To dinner.

3. Why is Ben awakened in the middle of the night in the beginning of Chapter 8?
(a) He needs to help put a drunk Weasel to bed.
(b) He has a phone call.
(c) He has had a nightmare.
(d) He is supposed to be at work.

4. What does this visitor do to Dud after he falls into some sort of trance?
(a) Stiffs him on a bill.
(b) Places an embarrassing sign around his neck.
(c) Stabs him with a knife.
(d) Bites his neck.

5. Why does Marjorie Glick report her sons missing?
(a) They did not go to school that day.
(b) They missed the bus that should have brought them home.
(c) They are overdue at home and never arrived at their destination.
(d) They have been out all night.

6. What does the custodian of the dump like to shoot when he lights fires in the dump?
(a) Birds.
(b) Cats.
(c) Rats.
(d) Cockroaches.

7. Who is Matt Burke?
(a) A math professor.
(b) A gas station attendant.
(c) A faith healer.
(d) An English teacher.

8. What do Ben and Susan believe continues to live in the Marsten House?
(a) The ghosts of the four missing children.
(b) Birdie's ghost.
(c) Hubert's evil.
(d) Hubert's ghost.

9. Why does Parkins come to Matt's house to investigate the dead man?
(a) Parkins is the constable.
(b) Parkins is the coroner.
(c) Parkins is the dead man's brother.
(d) Parkins is a curious neighbor.

10. Who is forced to bury the casket alone when his partner fails to return after the service?
(a) Weasel Craig.
(b) Royal Snow.
(c) Mike Ryerson.
(d) Mr. Glick.

11. Who comes to speak to Dud Rogers at the dump just as he is closing for the day?
(a) Mike Ryerson.
(b) Danny Glick.
(c) Barlow.
(d) Matt Burke.

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

13. Who is traveling with the tall man in Chapter 1?
(a) An elderly man.
(b) An elderly woman.
(c) An adolescent child.
(d) A small child.

14. What does the tall man sell that allows him to quit his job and leave California?
(a) A letter from his literary agent.
(b) A letter from his stock broker.
(c) A letter from his lawyer.
(d) A letter from his grandmother.

15. What does Ben tell Matt not to tell when he calls for help regarding the dead man in his guest bedroom?
(a) That he stabbed the dead man with a wooden stake.
(b) That he heard the dead man take his own life.
(c) That he heard Danny Glick's laughing voice.
(d) That he smoothered the dead man with a pillow.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the local gossip in Jerusalem's Lot?

2. Who found the dead bodies in Marsten House in 1939?

3. What does Dud repeatedly ask his visitor to do?

4. Who dug the grave prior to the service?

5. Who was it that died in the fatal motorcycle accident in which one of the characters of the novel was driving?

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