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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 Matt plan to have sent to his room at the hospital from the library?

2. Why is the patient confiding in Father Callahan?

3. What does Susan find in the guest bedroom while waiting for an ambulance to respond to her call for help after Matt has a heart attack?

4. What does Ben place around Matt's neck when he visits him in the hospital?

5. Who arrives at the Petrie home while Mark and his companion are attempting to explain about the vampires?

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. Who comes to visit Matt Burke in Chapter 13?

3. Who wakes to find her child dead in the beginning of Chapter 10? What is this person's reaction?

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

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

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

7. Why does Ben return to Jerusalem's Lot after having escaped the vampires the day before?

8. What happens to Mark and Susan when they enter the Marsten House?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

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 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?

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