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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 the workers at Safeway get high off of?

2. At the hotel, Jody receives a phone call. What did the caller say to Jody?

3. What is foreshadowed in the first chapter of the book?

4. Why is Jody worried about the homeless man across the street from their apartment?

5. What does Tommy learn about Jody's saliva?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens after Kurt is knocked out?

2. What does Tommy decide to help Simon with?

3. What does Moore do in this chapter that is important for Jody's character development?

4. Why does Jody hate walking alone?

5. How is Jody's note to Tommy signed? Why does this upset Tommy?

6. Why does Jody break the romantic mood that is building between her and Tommy?

7. What does Tommy's desire to sleep with Jody while she is sleeping show?

8. How does Jody prove she is a vampire? How does Tommy react to the news?

9. Jody gets a phone call from a mysterious person. What does the person say to her?

10. What are the workers at the Marina Safeway referred to and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Several of the characters in Bloodsucking Fiends are aflicted with AIDS:

Why does Moore discuss AIDS in the book?

Does this have something to do with the time period of the novel?

How did AIDS affect the gay and young American scene in San Francisco in the early 1990s?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the life of Elijah before he was turned into a vampire.

Is this why he seeks to have a companion so survive the rest of his lonely existence?

Essay Topic 3

If you could be Elijah in the story, how would you have changed your actions so that you would not end up in a bronze statue?

Describe why and how your actions would have been different.

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