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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 tells Floyd Tibbits about the thing Mike Ryerson found when he got to work that morning?
(a) Dell.
(b) Hank.
(c) Dud.
(d) Royal.

2. How many families have lived in Marsten House since the murders?
(a) 1.
(b) 3.
(c) 6.
(d) None.

3. To whom was the Marsten House sold?
(a) Straker and Barlow.
(b) Hubert Marsten, Jr.
(c) Ben Mears.
(d) Larry Crockett.

4. What does Mike complain of during this visit?
(a) Mike is unhappy with the new taxes on beer.
(b) Mike has not seen his kids in weeks.
(c) Mike has not been feeling well.
(d) Mike is worried about his ongoing divorce.

5. Who does Ben Mears meet in the park in Chapter 2?
(a) Matt.
(b) Susan.
(c) Weasel.
(d) Floyd.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does this visitor do to Dud after he falls into some sort of trance?

2. How does the person who Ben meets in the park recognize him?

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

4. What does the custodian of the dump like to shoot when he lights fires in the dump?

5. Who dared nine-year-old Ben Mears to go inside Marsten House?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ben find when he arrives at Matt's house?

2. Who died in the Marsten House in 1939?

3. To whom does the boy make a confession?

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

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

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

7. What do Ben and Matt discuss over dinner in Chapter 7?

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

9. Who does Ben meet while at Dell's bar?

10. Which of the brothers eventually arrives home? What condition is he in?

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