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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Matt and Ben decide to go that evening after the dead man has been taken from Matt's house?

2. Where is Ben instructed to go in the middle of the night?

3. What story does the tall man find interesting in the newspaper?

4. Where does Ben go after dinner in Chapter 5?

5. What does Ben tell Matt not to tell when he calls for help regarding the dead man in his guest bedroom?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Hank Peters see in the Marsten cellar that he discusses with Larry Crockett?

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

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

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

9. Who are the tall man and the boy?

10. To whom does Ben give a speech about his writing career?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss bullies. What is a bully? How do you define bully? Name several characters in this novel that are bullies. How many of them are adults? What is different between a child bully and an adult bully? What are the similarities? What is the essentially quality of all bullies demonstrated in this novel? How is this quality eventually illustrated?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss one of these themes in a detailed essay, using examples from the novel:

1) Courage

2) Faith

3) Morality

Essay Topic 3

Who is Matt Burke? How does Ben meet Matt? Why do they become friends so quickly? What do they have in common? How does Matt become aware of the vampires in Jerusalem's Lot? How does Matt become the leader of the resistance? What happens to Matt when Mike attempts to turn him into a vampire? Why? How does Matt continue to fight the vampires? How does Matt get killed? Is this murder?

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