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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 asked to search for this person reported missing?

2. Which character is reported missing by her parents?

3. Who tells Ben that Susan has been turned into a vampire?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are vampires? Why do some of the characters have trouble believing in vampires? Why do other characters believe so easily? What do the vampires want in Jerusalem's Lot? Why do they make a sacrifice to Lord of Flies? Who is Lord of Flies? What power might Lord of Flies have over the vampires? How does Matt figure out how to kill the vampires? Why do they focus on killing Barlow? Does their plan work?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Discuss the fire of 1951. How did it begin? What was lost? Who fought it? What does it say about the town of Jerusalem's Lot? What does this fire represent by the end of the novel? Why does Ben recall this fire when he and Mark return to Jerusalem's Lot? Why does Ben begin another fire? How are the two fires alike? How are they different? What does fire symbolize in this novel?

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