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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Susan tell Ben before leaving him for the night in Chapter 5?
(a) She loves him.
(b) She wants to be with Floyd Tibbits.
(c) She wants to get married.
(d) She cannot see him anymore.

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

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

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

5. What does Ben tell Matt the subject of his new book is about?
(a) Hubert and Birdie Marsten.
(b) The history of Jerusalem's Lot.
(c) Vampires.
(d) The disappearances of four children and the history of Marsten House.

6. What does Larry Crockett offer Hank Peters to encourage him not to go to the police about the things he saw at Marsten House?
(a) Money.
(b) A new visa.
(c) Gold.
(d) A new bottle of gin.

7. What does this dark figure standing in the middle of Harmony Hill Cemetery appear to be holding?
(a) The body of a small child.
(b) The body of a large dog.
(c) The body of a small sheep.
(d) The body of a grown woman.

8. Who does Ben urge Matt to call?
(a) The coroner.
(b) The police.
(c) The hospital.
(d) The newspaper.

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

10. What story does the tall man find interesting in the newspaper?
(a) An article about national parks in Maine.
(b) An article about fly fishing.
(c) An article that describes Bangor as a tourist trap.
(d) An article that describes 'Salem's Lot as a ghost town.

11. Who dug the grave prior to the service?
(a) Royal Snow and Bill Norton.
(b) Mike Ryerson and Royal Snow.
(c) Royal Snow and Weasel Craig.
(d) Mike Ryerson and Mr. Glick.

12. Who insists on caring for this person, admitting she has done it many times before?
(a) Susan.
(b) Eva.
(c) Ann.
(d) Sandy.

13. Where does Ben run into Matt Burke and Weasel Craig?
(a) Eva's boarding house.
(b) The grocery store.
(c) Spencer's.
(d) Dell's.

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

15. Why does Charlie Rhodes make two children get off the bus?
(a) For fighting.
(b) For walking in the aisle while the bus is moving.
(c) For kissing.
(d) For passing a note.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What do the men forget to do and must flip a coin to decide who will do it, per Straker's request?

4. Who brings a photographer to Matt's house to investigate the dead man?

5. Where does Matt invite Mike to spend the night?

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