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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 Father Callahan agree to do after hearing the patient's story?

2. Which character is reported missing by her parents?

3. What objects is Mark carrying?

4. Why do Jimmy and Ben go to the morgue?

5. What destroyed half of Jerusalem's Lot in 1951?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 3

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.

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