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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 visits Mark at home that night?

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

3. Who does Ben kill while inside the Marsten House?

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

5. What did Mark see on Barlow's hand that gives him a clue as to where he is hiding?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Who sneaks up on Susan in the woods outside the Marsten House? Why is this person there?

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

7. 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?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Discuss Ann Norton. Why does Ann not like Ben? Why does Ann want Susan to marry Floyd Tibbits? What does Ann want for Susan? Is this what Susan wants for herself? How does this volatile relationship come to a head? Why does Susan chose not to make her mother into a vampire? What does this say about Susan's feelings for her mother? Who uses Ann to attempt murder against Matt? How does this foreshadow Matt's eventual death? What happens to Ann in the end? Is this fate better than the one Susan had planned for her mother? How?

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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