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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. What does Mark tell his parents about the commotion in his room?
2. What does the patient ask Father Callahan if he has noticed lately?
3. Who calls Susan in Chapter 9 with bad news regarding Ben Mears?
4. Who blesses this creation? Why?
5. Whose body does Matt suggest they ask Jimmy Cody to have exhumed?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Mark Petrie tell Ben? What do they find while taking a drive?
2. Who goes to the Marsten House? What do they find there?
3. Who does Father Callahan fight at the Petrie home? Why does he lose? What does this fight cause to happen to Father Callahan?
4. How does Mark escape from the rope with which Straker has tied him? How does Mark escape Straker?
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 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. What does Matt ask Father Callahan to do as a result of their conversation? Why?
9. What story does Father Callahan tell Matt that helps him realize Father Callahan believes in vampires?
10. Who does Ben bury in the backyard of the Petrie house? Why?
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 these themes, the characters they illustrate, and the author's intentions as regard to these themes:
1) Child abuse
2) Marital infidelity
3) Grief
Essay Topic 3
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?
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