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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 is a maenad?

2. What do Sookie and Bill do when the meeting at Stan's is over?

3. Who does Sookie say has to go with her?

4. What does the creature in question #23 do to Sookie?

5. Who does Bill bring into the room to dispose of what Sookie found?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Sookie waiting at the airport in Dallas and at what Airlines is she waiting?

2. Who does Sookie encounter inside the Fellowship Church?

3. Who comes to Sookie's work, what do they do, and what does she recall?

4. Who accosts Sookie while she's waiting at the airport and how does she deal with him?

5. Where is Sookie working and what happens when Andy comes there? What does Sookie do about Andy?

6. What does Sookie hear on the news while she waits for a car at the hotel? What does she think about the news?

7. What does Sookie suggest about a leak in information and how does she deal with it?

8. What does Sookie find when she comes to work the day after her encounter with Andy?

9. What does Sookie do for a living and what special ability does she have?

10. What do Sookie and a few co-workers think about Lafayette?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the following:

1. Compare/contrast Sookie's world to that of "real" life. What are the advantages to each world? The disadvantages?

2. In which world would you rather live in if you possess no supernatural abilities? Explain your response.

3. If you had Sookie's abilities how would you use them? Use examples from Living Dead in Dallas and your own life to illustrate your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Some aspects of the metaphysical is in every Sookie Stackhouse book. Discuss the following:

1. Define the term "metaphysical."

2. Discuss what elements of the metaphysical appear in the Sookie Stackhouse books, e. g.: What elements of Sookie Stackhouse seem outside the five senses? Give examples. What things that happen cannot be proved by normal scientific methods?

3. What challenges are there in reading a novel that is based in metaphysics?

Essay Topic 3

Sookie Stackhouse is in some ways a larger-than-life heroine. Despite incredible odds, she usually comes out on top, in Living Dead in Dallas and in the others in the series. Discuss the following:

1. Does being a larger-than-life heroine or one with special abilities make that person less of a heroine? In other words, which is more admirable--a heroine who ultimately always "lands on her feet," or one who strives against impossible odds and doesn't always succeed?

2. Does a character have to be successful in order to be a hero? Explain your answer.

3. Choose one other character besides Sookie who you might call a hero/heroine and explain why you choose that person. Illustrate your statements with examples from the text.

4. Does every work of fiction have to have a hero? Explain your answer.

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