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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. Jason tells the two women that Maudette Pickens, a girl Sookie had gone to school with, had been murdered when?

2. What is Sookie able to do?

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

4. Eric wants to know how Bill knows that there is going to be an occurrence at the bar. What does Sookie do?

5. Sookie tells Bill that there is going to be what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Sookie arrives home?

2. What does Sookie learn about Bill?

3. Why is Bill not happy with Eric?

4. Why does Sookie grow more and more annoyed at the bar?

5. How does Sookie save Eric and Pam during the police raid?

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

7. What do Terry Bellefleur and Sookie discuss?

8. What does Sookie do when she arrives at Fangtasia?

9. What does Andy Bellefleur do when he comes into Merlotte's?

10. About what does Bill speak at the meeting of the Descendants of the Glorious Dead?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sookie's grandmother is murdered.

Part 1) Why is she murdered? How does her death affect Sookie and Jason?

Part 2) How does Sookie cope with her grandmother's death? Are you surprised at how she handles her grief and loss? Why or why not?

Part 3) What does her death and funeral reveal about Gran? How will the loss of Gran change Sookie's life?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Sam is unusual.

Part 1) How is he unusual? How does Sookie sense this? How is this foreshadowed throughout the story?

Part 2) With the discovery of vampires and oddities such as Sam, what might this reveal about the world in which the story takes place?

Part 3) Might surprises such as these exist in our own world? Why or why not?

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