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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Robert do to express his frustration in Part I, Chapter3?
(a) He smashes his glass and cuts his hand.
(b) He throws his book at the mirror, smashing it.
(c) He throws a tantrum.
(d) He smashes his glass and cuts his forehead.

2. In Part II, Chapter 8, Ben jumps over what object?
(a) The body of another vampire.
(b) A water trough.
(c) A candlestick.
(d) Robert's fence.

3. What does Robert do when he finally gets in the house in Part I, Chapter 5?
(a) Lies on the floor in darkness.
(b) Sets the house on fire.
(c) Throws garlic cloves out the door at the vampires.
(d) Changes his clothes.

4. In Part II, Chapter 7, Robert is not satisfied that the epidemic was caused by what?
(a) Mosquitoes.
(b) Viruses.
(c) All of the answers are true.
(d) Fleas.

5. What is Robert getting at Sears?
(a) A freezer.
(b) A generator.
(c) A lawn mower.
(d) A lathe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Robert has a tattoo. What does it look like?

2. What does Robert smash in Chapter 1?

3. What is the protagonist's mission in Chapter 1?

4. What is Robert doing while reading?

5. What part of a vampire does Robert think the more effective method of killing affects?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Robert's relationship with Ben Cortman before Ben became ill.

2. What two important items did the vampires destroy after Robert's watch stopped, and why were they so important?

3. Why does Robert go to Ben's house after Virginia dies, and what does he find there?

4. When Robert recalls the past in Part I, Chapter 6, what does he remember?

5. In Part I, Chapter 6, what has Robert done to repair his home?

6. Robert realizes that the vampires' vulnerability lies in their blood. Why does he believe this, and what does he intend to do about it?

7. Describe Robert Neville as he is introduced to the reader in Part I, Chapter I.

8. Why is the discovery of the effect that sunlight has on vampires an important turning point for Robert?

9. Robert mulls over the ways vampires "die" for the final time. Describe some of the forms these deaths take and Robert's suppositions about why there are different ways of dying for vampires.

10. Outline Robert's experiments on the female vampire in Part II, Chapter 7.

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