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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. Where are Hugo and Sookie locked?

2. How does Sookie get to the fellowship?

3. Who does Sookie drive home?

4. Where does Sookie go a few days after seeing Bill?

5. Who is firing upon the house?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where do Sookie and Bill go the night of Godfrey's suicide?

2. How does Sookie get away from the church and what does Sarah do about it?

3. What does Sookie hear outside the mansion at the celebration party and what does she do?

4. How is Sookie and Bill's relationship for several weeks after being in Dallas?

5. What does Sookie do after she sees Hugo and Isabel's punishment?

6. What does Godfrey tell Sookie and what does she say to him about the ceremony the next day?

7. What does Sookie find when she arrives home?

8. What does Sookie do in the morning after she escapes from the church?

9. What does Bill tell Sookie about he and Portia?

10. How does Sookie and the others feel about Hugo and Isabel's punishment?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the following:

1. What is a plot? What are the most important elements of a plot and their definition? Do all novels have a plot? Why or why not?

2. Write a brief synopsis of the plot of Living Dead in Dallas, identifying where the various elements of the plot occur (Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution or denouement). Do you find it difficult to identify the plot? Why or why not? What about the various elements of the plot?

3. Identify the major sub-plots and their elements (They may not contain every element of a major plot). Do the sub-plots add to the main plot? Why or why not. Are the sub-plots interesting in and of themselves? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Most protagonists are a mixture of admirable traits and character flaws, and Sookie Stackhouse is no exception. Discuss the following:

1. Trace and analyze situations when Sookie demonstrates her special abilities. Give specific examples to illustrate your analysis.

2. Trace and analyze Sookie's character flaws offering specific examples of these flaws in your discussion.

3. Discuss how you think Sookie's admirable traits makes her popular and able to help with many problems of her friends. Have her flaws impacted her life? Do any of her friends notice these flaws? Who? How does the reader know this?

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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