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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. Why does Mark eventually change tactics in regard to the knocks on his window?

2. What do Ben and his companions find in the Marsten House.

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

4. What books does Father Callahan notice on the patient's bedside table?

5. What do Ben and Jimmy fail to tell the police when they come later that night?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who comes to Mark Petrie's window and asks to be invited in? Why does Mark initially refuse? Why does he change his mind?

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

3. With whom does Susan argue in the beginning of Chapter 9? Why?

4. What does Mark Petrie tell Ben? What do they find while taking a drive?

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

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

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

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

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

10. Who comes to visit Matt Burke in Chapter 13?

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

1) Child abuse

2) Marital infidelity

3) Grief

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Jerusalem's Lot. What is this town like in the beginning of the novel? Compare and contrast Jerusalem's Lot to other towns in the country, or to your hometown. How is Jerusalem's Lot like any other American city? How is it different? What changes in Jerusalem's Lot over the course of the novel? What made Jerusalem's Lot vulnerable to this change? Is Jerusalem's Lot unique in this vulnerability? Could something like this happen in your hometown? Why or why not?

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