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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. How does the person who Ben meets in the park recognize him?

2. Which Glick child arrives home shortly after Marjorie raises the alarm?

3. Who is the custodian at the local dump?

4. With whom did Eva Miller once have a romantic relationship?

5. What house catches Ben's attention as he arrives at his destination in 1975?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ben find when he arrives at Matt's house?

2. What does Hank Peters see in the Marsten cellar that he discusses with Larry Crockett?

3. What do Ben and Matt discuss over dinner in Chapter 7?

4. What does Matt hear as he tries to fall asleep after allowing Mike to sleep in his spare bedroom?

5. What do Ben and Susan discuss is still living in the Marsten House?

6. Which children go missing in Chapter 4? Who sounds the alarm?

7. What two boys are walking alone in the dark woods? Why?

8. Who died in the Marsten House in 1939?

9. Who are the tall man and the boy?

10. Why does Ben decide to go out again after leaving Susan at home after their second dinner with her parents?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Discuss foreshadowing. How is the arrival of the vampires foreshadowed in the beginning of this novel? How does the childhood prank pulled on Ben Mears foreshadow his return to Jerusalem's Lot? How does the death of Ben's wife foreshadow Ben's act of murder against Susan? Discuss how Susan's relationship with Floyd Tibbits foreshadows the altercation between him and Ben.

Essay Topic 3

What is evil? Does evil exist? What makes the Marsten House evil? Is the Marsten House evil before Hubert Marsten kills his wife? Why or why not? Did Hubert Marsten kill the four missing children who disappeared before his death? If so, how? If so, why? Why did Marsten kill his wife? Why did Marsten kill himself? Did these deaths cause evil to remain in Marsten House? Did Barlow have something to do with these deaths? Is this the reason Barlow chose the Marsten House for himself to live in?

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