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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 does Ben go after dinner in Chapter 5?

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

3. Why is Parkins Gillespie unconcerned about the missing boy?

4. What makes the two men Larry Crockett hires for Straker feel uneasy, afraid?

5. Who does Matt believe is dead in his guest room?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Ben decide to go out again after leaving Susan at home after their second dinner with her parents?

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

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

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

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

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

9. What do Ben and Susan discuss is still living in the Marsten House?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Mark Petrie. What kind of a person is Mark? Why does the author show Mark getting into a fight in the school yard at the beginning of the novel? What does this fight say about Mark's personality? Discuss Mark's fascination with horror monsters. How does this fascination help Mark when Danny Glick appears at his window? How does this fascination hamper Mark when he tries to tell people about the vampires? What is it about Mark's character that makes him one of the survivors of Jerusalem's Lot?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss symbolism. What does the crucifix symbolize in this novel? How is the crucifix used as a weapon against the vampires? Why does Ben's tongue depressor crucifix work against Mrs. Glick, but Father Callahan's crucifix does not work against Barlow? What does this say about Ben and Father Callahan? What does Marsten House symbolize in this novel? Why? What does the coffin symbolize?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss exorcism and its relationship to the Catholic Church as a comparison to the vampires who invade Jerusalem's Lot. What is exorcism? What is its purpose? Do demons exist? Do vampires exist? Is it a leap of logic to believe in demons or vampires? Why does Father Callahan believe in vampires? Does Callahan believe in exorcism? Does the Catholic Church continue to believe in demons? Are exorcisms still practiced in the Catholic Church? Why or why not? What does this say about the Church's stand on things such as demons and vampires? Does this take away some of the realism of this novel? Does it add to the realism of this novel?

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