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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. Who is killed by a busload of vampire children?

2. What does one of the people who returned to Jerusalem's Lot a year after Barlow's death drop into the brush?

3. Who invites Mark into the cellar?

4. Who does Susan learn died when she goes home in the beginning of Chapter 9?

5. Why does Mark Petrie sneak up on Susan in the woods outside the Marsten House?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who goes to the Marsten House? What do they find there?

2. What does Matt ask Father Callahan to do as a result of their conversation? Why?

3. Where does Susan go on her own in Chapter 11? For what purpose?

4. Who does Father Callahan fight at the Petrie home? Why does he lose? What does this fight cause to happen to Father Callahan?

5. Who does Ben bury in the backyard of the Petrie house? Why?

6. What do Franklin Bodden and Virgil Rathburn find when they visit the dump in Chapter 10?

7. When Marjorie Glick wakes up sick after a specific dream, what symptoms make the reader believe she has been bitten by a vampire?

8. What does Father Callahan initially believe is the cause of Matt's story about the vampires in Jerusalem's Lot?

9. What happens to Matt when he sees Mike return to his guest room as a vampire?

10. Why do Ben and Mark return to Jerusalem's Lot?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Susan Norton. Who is Susan? What is her education level? What is her relationship with her mother like? Why do Susan and her mother fight often through the course of the novel? What is Susan's relationship like with her father? How does this contrast with her relationship with her mother? Who is Susan dating when the novel begins? How does this relationship change through the course of the novel? Why? What does this change say about Susan's character?

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

Discuss these themes, the characters they illustrate, and the author's intentions as regard to these themes:

1) Child abuse

2) Marital infidelity

3) Grief

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