Charles's friend and servant, some of the story is told through his journal entries.
Who is Calvin? or Who is Calvin McCann?
100
Name of the abandoned village near the mansion in the story.
What is Jerusalem's Lot?
100
What an epistolary novel is made up of.
What are letters and journal entries?
100
What happened to Cousin Stephen that caused Charles to inherit his house?
What is he fell off a cliff?
100
This character might lose her home, after caring for her angry, invalid mother for many years--but the haunted mansion, Hill House, has a special welcome for her.
Who is Eleanor?
200
Name of the cousin who died by falling off the cliff near the mansion's front porch--and who left the house to Charles Boone, our narrator.
Who is Stephen Boone?
200
Name of the house Charles Boone inherited from his cousin at the start of the story.
What is Chapelwaite?
200
Of the following, the Gothic element missing from "Jerusalem's Lot": Setting in a castle or mansion, an ancient curse or prophecy, and women in distress.
What are women in distress?
200
What happened to Charles before the story started that may have caused his "brain fever"?
What is the death of his wife? Or, what is, his wife Sarah died?
200
This is the false study of the scientific research Dr. Merrill is performing at the Hill House.
What is insomnia?
300
Names of the father and daughter who died on the same day, in the cellar of the mansion--she by falling on the stairs, and he by hanging himself in grief.
Who are Randolph and Marcella?
300
Name of the local village, whose residents throw stones at Charles' servant, and refuse to help them when they need it.
What is Preacher's Corners?
300
An example of a supernatural event, the actual cause of the mysterious sounds in the walls of the mansion is not rats, but actually this.
What are the undead figures of Uncle Randolph and Cousin Marcella?
300
She warned Charles that his family's mansion was "a bad house."
Who is Mrs. Cloris?
300
This is the real subject of the scientific study Dr. Crane is studying at Hill House.
What is fear?
400
Names of the brothers who built the mansion, but who argued about one of the brothers' growing obsession with an evil minister and his Satanic church.
Who are Robert and Philip Boone?
400
State where the events of Jerusalem's Lot takes place.
What is Maine?
400
Of the following, which eerie sound does NOT occur in the story "Jerusalem's Lot": Mysterious chanting, the baying of wolves, whippoorwills calling all night long, mysterious turning sounds under the earth.
What is the baying of wolves?
400
What happened to the people who lived in Jerusalem's Lot on Halloween, 1789?
What is they all disappeared?
400
This is the name of a woman who was in distress, and threatened by a tyrannical male, in Hill House's historic past.
Who was Renee Crane, Caroline Crane, or Mrs. Crane?
500
Name of the evil Puritan minister who founded the town of Jerusalem's Lot, and lived to be 104.
Who is James Boon?
500
Name of the city that Kenneth Boone, the illegitimate child of the evil minister who founded Jerusalem's Lot, fled to to get away?
What is Boston?
500
The following are all examples from Jerusalem's Lot of this Gothic element--somewhat akin to a metaphor of horror: doors grating on rusty hinges, howling wind, sighs, moans, and eerie sounds; crazed laughter.
What is METONYMY?
500
Name of the evil book (in Latin or English) that was found on the altar of the evil church in Jerusalem's Lot?
What is De Vermis Mysteriis, or The Mystery of the Worm?
500
These are the names of all three women who suffer distress in the present day, during Dr. Merrill's study at Hill House.