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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 Sam?

2. What does Sookie do as she and Hugo are driving?

3. What kind of a supernatural being is Bill?

4. What does Sam do when he finds out Sookie was attacked?

5. What does Eric plan to do about the maenad?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Sookie do when she wakes from her injuries and what is she told?

6. Where does Eric want Sookie to go and what are her conditions to agree?

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

8. What does Sookie get for her work the day after meeting with Stan?

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

10. What does Steve want Sookie to do at the church and where does Sarah take her?

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

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.

Essay Topic 3

Many novels, and perhaps a majority, of novels ends on a happy note. Discuss the following:

1. Why do you think many (most?) people want what they perceive as a happy or good ending to a novel? Explain your opinion. Do you? Why or why not?

2. What are three reasons to read fiction? Discuss each one in light of Living Dead in Dallas and whether or not it fulfills all three, two or one of the reasons you mention. Give examples as to why Living Dead in Dallas is or is not successful in fulfilling the reasons you discuss.

3. Do you think reading solely for entertainment is as good a reason to read as any other? Why or why not? Can any work of fiction or non-fiction, no matter how poorly written, enlighten, teach, stimulate thought? Why or why not?

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