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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. Where does Susan decide to go in Chapter 11 by herself?

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

4. What books does Father Callahan notice on the patient's bedside table?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss symbolism. What does the crucifix symbolize in this novel? How is the crucifix used as a weapon against the vampires? Why does Ben's tongue depressor crucifix work against Mrs. Glick, but Father Callahan's crucifix does not work against Barlow? What does this say about Ben and Father Callahan? What does Marsten House symbolize in this novel? Why? What does the coffin symbolize?

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