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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 dies in the local jail in Chapter 10?

2. Why does Mark go to the cellar?

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

4. What mode of transportation do these characters take when they run away from Jerusalem's Lot?

5. Who blesses this creation? Why?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What information does Matt Burke hope to learn from library books he requests be brought to him in the hospital?

3. Who wakes to find her child dead in the beginning of Chapter 10? What is this person's reaction?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is Ben Mears? Why has he come to Jerusalem's Lot? What is Ben hoping to achieve by visiting this place? What has happened in Ben's life that has led him back to this childhood home? Does Ben have affectionate memories of this town? Does Ben have bad memories of this town? Discuss how his time in Jerusalem's Lot as a child has affected Ben as an adult. Discuss a recent tragedy in Ben's life and how that might have affected his decision to come to Jerusalem's Lot.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Larry Crockett. Who is Larry Crockett? Why does Crockett sell the Marsten House? What makes Crockett uneasy about this sale? Why does he complete the sale anyway? What does Crockett get out of the sale? What does this say about his character? Would the invasion of the vampires in Jerusalem's Lot have been possible without Larry Crockett? Why or why not? What eventually happens to Crockett? Is this fate deserved?

Essay Topic 3

What is evil? Does evil exist? What makes the Marsten House evil? Is the Marsten House evil before Hubert Marsten kills his wife? Why or why not? Did Hubert Marsten kill the four missing children who disappeared before his death? If so, how? If so, why? Why did Marsten kill his wife? Why did Marsten kill himself? Did these deaths cause evil to remain in Marsten House? Did Barlow have something to do with these deaths? Is this the reason Barlow chose the Marsten House for himself to live in?

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