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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 do Lara and Harry do when they are attacked?

2. What is the guard at Genosa's building?

3. What does Kincaid tell Harry about his fee?

4. What does Harry find when he returns to his apartment?

5. What does Genosa decide to do with his employees?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Harry find in the dressing room and what does he do immediately?

2. How is Thomas going to heal and what does Justine say to Harry?

3. How does Harry feel when Thomas tells him they are brothers, what does Harry demand and what does Harry first see in the mirror?

4. How does Thomas feel about being with Harry, what does Harry say and what is Thomas's answer?

5. Who shows up where Harry and Lara are fighting and what does she do? Who then shows up and what do they say?

6. How does Harry kill one of the vampires fighting him and Lara and what does Marva say to him?

7. What does Harry find when he returns to his apartment from Raith manor and what does Bob tell him? What is Harry's response?

8. What does Harry tell Murphy he has learned about Thomas and what do he, Murphy and Kincaid discuss?

9. What does Harry do when he first arrives on Genosa's set?

10. What is Harry doing at the beginning of the book?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Harry's mother tells him that she has prepared them both for this day and that they should watch out for each other. Harry's mother gives him a gift, explaining that it is insight. Harry accepts it. When he is out of the soul gaze Harry tells Thomas that their mother said that she loved them both. Harry has spent so much of his life alone that he is not sure how to react now that he has family. Part of him is still leery of letting Thomas too close, but the words spoken to him by his own mother have gone a long way to solidify the beginnings of a relationship for the two of them.

1. Discuss what you think Harry might be feeling and thinking when he finds out he has a brother. Use examples from your own life and Blood Rites to support your answer.

2. Do you think Harry is better off emotionally knowing what happened to his mother? Why or why not? Use examples from your own life and Blood Rites to support your answer.

3. Discuss, in depth, how you think Harry's life is going to change now that Thomas and the puppy is now living with him. Use examples from your own life and Blood Rites to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

There are a number of interesting questions raised by Blood Rites. Questions that Butcher most likely want readers to consider and think through carefully. Discuss the following:

1. What does the term "author agenda" mean?

2. Name one idea/concept you think may have been a part of the Butcher's agenda. Analyze that idea throughout the book and discuss Butcher's probable agenda concerning that idea.

2. Do you think writers who have an agenda for writing should point it out in a preface?

3. How often do you think fiction is written with a clear agenda in mind by the author?

4. Research the life of Butcher and see if/where his life may have influenced his writing.

Essay Topic 3

Often, authors will write about "what they know," and sometimes knowing a little about the author makes the books more interesting. Discuss the following:

1. Research and give a brief biographical sketch of Jim Butcher.

2. What in Butcher's background may have helped him in writing Blood Rites? What may have influenced the way he depicts various characters and scenes?

3. Do you think there is always some of the author's own life in his/her novels? Why or why not? Give examples.

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