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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 buried in the backyard of the Petrie home?

2. Why does Father Callahan believe the story of the young woman's death by vampires?

3. Who turns Corey into a vampire on his way out of town?

4. Who does Father Callahan try to call after leaving the hospital?

5. Who returns to Jerusalem's Lot a year after the death of Barlow?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Ben return to Jerusalem's Lot after having escaped the vampires the day before?

2. What does Ben make a crucifix out of? What does this crucifix symbolize?

3. What does Susan hear at Matt's house while Matt is checking on a strange noise in the guest room of his house? What does Susan later find in the guest room?

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

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

6. Where is Susan while Mark is being held prisoner upstairs? Does Mark attempt to rescue her? What happens to Susan?

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

8. Why do Ben and Jimmy Cody go to the morgue? What do they expect to happen?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Discuss one of the following aspects of the setting of this novel:

1) The time period. In what year is the novel set? What impact does this year have on the novel? How does this year compare to modern time?

2) The location. Why was Maine chosen? What is unique about this area, this town, that leaves it vulnerable to attack by vampires?

3) The setting as a whole. How does the setting influence the development of the plot? What about the setting makes the plot more believable? How would the novel be different if it had been set elsewhere or in a different time period?

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