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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 tell Susan he came to Marsten House?

2. Who does Mark claim attempted to enter his house and bite him the night before?

3. What does Mark tell his parents about the commotion in his room?

4. What does the patient ask Father Callahan if he has noticed lately?

5. Who attended a funeral of a young woman supposedly killed by a vampire?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What is Ben forced to do while in the Marsten House? How does this connect to a tragedy in his past?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Using characters and/or examples from the novel, discuss one of the following:

1) Character relationships: chose two characters and discuss in detail their relationship and how it affects motives and actions.

2) Metaphor. Offer examples of the use of metaphor throughout the novel.

3) Point of view. Discuss the point of view, how it was used, and how the novel might have changed if a different point of view was used.

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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