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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 does Sookie find out about Kevin Prior, Rene, and JB?

2. How had Maudette been killed?

3. Why does Sam make a request of Sookie?

4. Who does Sookie remind Rene of?

5. Sookie is surprised and intrigued when Sam leans over and does what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sookie learn about Bill?

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

3. Why is Bill not happy with Eric?

4. What happens when Eric asks how Bill knew there would be a raid?

5. What happens when Sam finds Sookie upset at work? How does Sookie feel about this?

6. What happens when Sookie arrives home?

7. Who is Adele Hale Stackhouse? Why does Sookie live with her?

8. What happens between Detective Bellefleur and Sookie?

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

10. What does Sam want Sookie to do for him? What does she find?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Several women are murdered in this story.

Part 1) By whom are they murdered? How are they murdered? Why are they murdered? How do these murders progress the plot?

Part 2) How do each of the murders affect Sookie and the other members of the Bon Temps community?

Part 3) Is the murderer a surprise? Why or why not? How is the identity of the murderer foreshadowed throughout the story?

Part 4) Could Sookie have realized the identity of the murderer without her telepathic powers? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Sookie changes from ingesting vampire blood.

Part 1) How has she changed? What does she think about these changes? How do others react to these changes?

Part 2) Could this blood permanently affect Sookie or others? Why or why not?

Part 3) Do you think, based on the information given in this book, that Sookie would ever want to be a vampire? Why or why not?

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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