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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. What does Matt notice about Mike when he brings him a pair of pajamas?

2. Who does Ben Mears meet in the park in Chapter 2?

3. Who was in a motorcycle accident that resulted in someone dying?

4. Who asks a friend in the FBI to investigate the backgrounds of Ben Mears, Straker, and Barlow in the aftermath of the search for the missing boy?

5. How many families have lived in Marsten House since the murders?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Mr. Glick demand Danny do during the funeral for Danny Glick?

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

4. How does Susan know who Ben is when she sees him in the park? What does this tell the reader about Ben's career to this point?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 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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