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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 Petrie sneak up on Susan in the woods outside the Marsten House?

2. Who is killed by a busload of vampire children?

3. Who finds Corey Bryant in his wife's bed?

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

5. Who does Mark hear screaming in the basement?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss bullies. What is a bully? How do you define bully? Name several characters in this novel that are bullies. How many of them are adults? What is different between a child bully and an adult bully? What are the similarities? What is the essentially quality of all bullies demonstrated in this novel? How is this quality eventually illustrated?

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 exorcism and its relationship to the Catholic Church as a comparison to the vampires who invade Jerusalem's Lot. What is exorcism? What is its purpose? Do demons exist? Do vampires exist? Is it a leap of logic to believe in demons or vampires? Why does Father Callahan believe in vampires? Does Callahan believe in exorcism? Does the Catholic Church continue to believe in demons? Are exorcisms still practiced in the Catholic Church? Why or why not? What does this say about the Church's stand on things such as demons and vampires? Does this take away some of the realism of this novel? Does it add to the realism of this novel?

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