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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 are the name of Rita's kids?
2. Dexter explains that "Rita was merely my ______, a silly kid's costume I wore on weekends to hide the fact that I was the kind of person who did the things that this other interesting fellow was now doing and I wasn't."
3. In context to Chapter 1, the word "mess" refers to what?
4. In Chapter 13, Dexter senses ______ was broken into.
5. The narrator explains how he secures the priest to the table with ______.
Short Essay Questions
1. Who makes an arrest in the Tamiami Trail Killer case? Why does this person think they have the right suspect?
2. Describe Rita. Who is she to Dexter? How is she the perfect girlfriend for Dexter?
3. What object is sitting on top of the package of body parts found in the goalie's net at the ice rink? Who is the object left for? Why?
4. Whose point of view the story is told from? How is this point of view useful in understanding the overall meaning of the novel?
5. Who says, "I am a very neat monster"? What is this character referring to?
6. Who is Dexter Morgan? Who is his father and what was his occupation? Describe the relationship Dexter has with his father.
7. How does Dexter know someone has been inside his home? What is damaged or missing inside Dexter's home?
8. After much consideration, what is Dexter's hypothesis of the Tamiami Trail Killer's reason for not finishing the cutting of his victim? To whom does he tell his hypothesis to? Does Dexter think the Tamiami Trail Killer will kill again? Explain.
9. What "trophy" does the Tamiami Trail Killer give to Dexter? For what reason does Dexter believe the killer gave him this trophy?
10. What gift does the intruder leave Dexter? What is symbolic of this gift?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Analyze the relevance of the setting of Miami to the plot of the novel. Why is the setting important to the understanding of Darkly Dreaming Dexter?
Essay Topic 2
Analyze Jeff Lindsay's use of personification throughout the text. Use specific examples from Darkly Dreaming Dexter to support your answer.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay in which you show how a minor character in the novel functions in the work. Discuss how the character affects action, theme, or the development of other characters.
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