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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. Whose bodies does Jimmy Cody tell Matt are missing from the morgue?

2. Who is asked to search for this person reported missing?

3. What does Susan stop to buy on her way to her destination?

4. What causes Matt to go upstairs while he is visiting with Susan in Chapter 9?

5. Who is buried in the backyard of the Petrie home?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mark escape from the rope with which Straker has tied him? How does Mark escape Straker?

2. What story does Father Callahan tell Matt that helps him realize Father Callahan believes in vampires?

3. Who calls Susan with bad news later that same afternoon?

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

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

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

7. What happens to Mark and Susan when they enter the Marsten House?

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

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

10. What is in the scrapbook Ben has kept since leaving Jerusalem's Lot?

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

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?

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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