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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. Who is seen by several characters buying groceries at Milt Crossen's and lifting it with apparently no trouble?
(a) Straker.
(b) Mark Petrie.
(c) Barlow.
(d) Ben Mears.

2. What happens in a dream that Mike tells Matt about?
(a) Mike is impaled on a gate post like Doc.
(b) A friend of Mike's comes to the window and he invites him in.
(c) Mike kills his wife with a knife.
(d) Mike's son is kidnapped by a dark figure.

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

4. What is the occupation of the tall man who appears in Chapter 1?
(a) Writer.
(b) Politician.
(c) Real estate agent.
(d) Artist.

5. What does Ben tell Susan his current book is about?
(a) The disappearance of four children before Hubert Marsten's death.
(b) The history of Jerusalem's Lot.
(c) The history of childhood pranks.
(d) The history of folklore in Maine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Marsten House named for?

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

3. Why does Marjorie Glick report her sons missing?

4. Where does Matt run into Mike Ryerson?

5. Where does Ben run into Matt Burke and Weasel Craig?

Short Essay Questions

1. Which children go missing in Chapter 4? Who sounds the alarm?

2. Why did Ben enter the Marsten House as a nine-year-old boy?

3. What is the book Ben is currently writing about?

4. Who becomes convinced that Danny's eyes are open in his coffin? What does he do about it?

5. What is usual about the box that two movers are ordered to take to the Marsten House?

6. What house does Ben Mears make note of as he drives into Jerusalem's Lot?

7. What does the tall man drive more than forty miles to get every week?

8. Who are the tall man and the boy?

9. Who is waiting for Ben the following evening when he leaves the boardinghouse to go to Spencer's?

10. What detail does Ben suggest Matt leave out of his discussion with the police about Mike's death? Why?

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