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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. Sookie explains that every time she and Bill do anything it is at whose suggestion?

2. Sookie sees the vampire leaving with whom?

3. How does Sookie surprise Sam, when he considers a vampire might be the murderer?

4. How does the vampire amaze Sookie?

5. Bill signals Eric and Pam and they all do what?

Short Essay Questions

1. About what do Gran and Bill talk?

2. How does Sam pleasantly surprise Sookie?

3. How do others react to Sookie's relationship with Bill?

4. What surprising news does Jason give his sister and grandmother the next day? How do the two women react to this news?

5. What disturbing information does JB du Rone give Sookie?

6. Why is Bill not happy with Eric?

7. Why do both Bill and Sookie think that the murderer is not a vampire? Who might be the killer?

8. How does Sookie react when she realizes she cannot read the vampire's thoughts?

9. Of whom does Sookie remind Rene Lenier?

10. How is Sookie and Bill's evening disrupted?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sookie and Bill visit Fangtasia.

Part 1) What is Fangtasia? Why does it exist? Why is it thriving?

Part 2) How might this place reflect the attitudes of the people in this world?

Part 3) What exists in our own reality that resembles Fangtasia? Compare Fangtasia to this institution in our own culture.

Essay Topic 2

Bill is the first vampire Sookie meets.

Part 1) How is Bill intriguing to Sookie? How does he become important in Sookie's life and to the plot of the story? How is this importance foreshadowed?

Part 2) Is Bill a good example of a typical vampire? Why or why not? How does he compare to other vampires? How does he compare to humans?

Part 3) How does Bill affect Sookie's life? Is his affect good, bad, or a little of both? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

Sookie's Uncle Bartlett sexually abused her.

Part 1) How is this information foreshadowed in the book?

Part 2) How does the giving of this information to Bill affect his relationship with Sookie? What does this reveal about his feelings for Sookie, as well as his mindset as a vampire?

Part 3) Did Uncle Bartlett deserve to be killed? Did Bill have the right to kill him? Why or why not?

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