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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. Who wakes to find her child dead?
3. What type of animal was found mutilated near Jerusalem's Lot?
4. Who attempts to fight Barlow with faith alone and fails?
5. What does this person tell Susan about the situation that brought Ben to the hospital?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who does Ben bury in the backyard of the Petrie house? Why?
2. 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?
3. What information does Matt Burke hope to learn from library books he requests be brought to him in the hospital?
4. Who calls Susan with bad news later that same afternoon?
5. Who comes to Mark Petrie's window and asks to be invited in? Why does Mark initially refuse? Why does he change his mind?
6. Who goes to the Marsten House? What do they find there?
7. What does Father Callahan initially believe is the cause of Matt's story about the vampires in Jerusalem's Lot?
8. What is in the scrapbook Ben has kept since leaving Jerusalem's Lot?
9. What do Franklin Bodden and Virgil Rathburn find when they visit the dump in Chapter 10?
10. Who wakes to find her child dead in the beginning of Chapter 10? What is this person's reaction?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
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
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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