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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 do Mark and Susan enter Marsten House?
2. Who runs away from Jerusalem's Lot at the beginning of Chapter 15?
3. Where does Susan decide to go in Chapter 11 by herself?
4. Who does Mark hear screaming in the basement?
5. Who visits Mark at home that night?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What happens to Matt when he sees Mike return to his guest room as a vampire?
3. Why do Ben and Jimmy Cody go to the morgue? What do they expect to happen?
4. What is in the scrapbook Ben has kept since leaving Jerusalem's Lot?
5. Who comes to visit Matt Burke in Chapter 13?
6. When Marjorie Glick wakes up sick after a specific dream, what symptoms make the reader believe she has been bitten by a vampire?
7. What does Father Callahan initially believe is the cause of Matt's story about the vampires in Jerusalem's Lot?
8. Where does Susan go on her own in Chapter 11? For what purpose?
9. What does Matt ask Father Callahan to do as a result of their conversation? Why?
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
Discuss one of the following aspects of the setting of this novel:
1) The time period. In what year is the novel set? What impact does this year have on the novel? How does this year compare to modern time?
2) The location. Why was Maine chosen? What is unique about this area, this town, that leaves it vulnerable to attack by vampires?
3) The setting as a whole. How does the setting influence the development of the plot? What about the setting makes the plot more believable? How would the novel be different if it had been set elsewhere or in a different time period?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss these themes, the characters they illustrate, and the author's intentions as regard to these themes:
1) Child abuse
2) Marital infidelity
3) Grief
Essay Topic 3
Discuss symbolism. What does the crucifix symbolize in this novel? How is the crucifix used as a weapon against the vampires? Why does Ben's tongue depressor crucifix work against Mrs. Glick, but Father Callahan's crucifix does not work against Barlow? What does this say about Ben and Father Callahan? What does Marsten House symbolize in this novel? Why? What does the coffin symbolize?
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