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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 books does Father Callahan notice on the patient's bedside table?
2. Why do Susan and her mother argue?
3. Who goes with Mark to talk to his parents about the vampires?
4. What mode of transportation do these characters take when they run away from Jerusalem's Lot?
5. What do Ben and his companions find in the Marsten House.
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What does Mark Petrie tell Ben? What do they find while taking a drive?
3. Why do Ben and Mark return to Jerusalem's Lot?
4. What happens to Matt when he sees Mike return to his guest room as a vampire?
5. Who does Ben bury in the backyard of the Petrie house? Why?
6. What is Ben forced to do while in the Marsten House? How does this connect to a tragedy in his past?
7. What is in the scrapbook Ben has kept since leaving Jerusalem's Lot?
8. Who wakes to find her child dead in the beginning of Chapter 10? What is this person's reaction?
9. How does Mark escape from the rope with which Straker has tied him? How does Mark escape Straker?
10. Who comes to visit Matt Burke in Chapter 13?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss Father Callahan. What causes Father Callahan to drink to excess? Is Father Callahan unhappy in his profession? Explain. What does Father Callahan wish he could do rather than what he is doing? Does Father Callahan get this chance? How does he do? Why does Father Callahan believe Matt when he tells him about the vampires? Would one assume a priest would believe such a story? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss Susan Norton. Who is Susan? What is her education level? What is her relationship with her mother like? Why do Susan and her mother fight often through the course of the novel? What is Susan's relationship like with her father? How does this contrast with her relationship with her mother? Who is Susan dating when the novel begins? How does this relationship change through the course of the novel? Why? What does this change say about Susan's character?
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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