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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. Where does Matt run into Mike Ryerson?
(a) Dell's.
(b) Spenser's.
(c) The grocery store.
(d) The dump.

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

3. Which Glick child arrives home shortly after Marjorie raises the alarm?
(a) Bobby.
(b) Ralphie.
(c) Danny.
(d) John.

4. Who brings a photographer to Matt's house to investigate the dead man?
(a) The police.
(b) The newspaper reporter.
(c) The coroner.
(d) The doctor.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To whom was the Marsten House sold?

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

4. Who is Jimmy Cody and why does he come to Matt's house to investigate the dead man?

5. Who did Ben see when he entered the Marsten House as a nine-year-old boy?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Matt call Ben in the middle of the night? What does he ask him to bring?

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

3. Who are the tall man and the boy?

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

5. What obstacle do several characters point out stand between a possible relationship between Susan and Ben?

6. Who died in the Marsten House in 1939?

7. What does Father Callahan attempt to hide from his housekeeper? Why?

8. Who sold the Marsten House to Straker and Barstow? Why?

9. Who does Matt run into at Dell's on Thursday night?

10. What two boys are walking alone in the dark woods? Why?

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