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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 happens to Sookie's face?

2. How does Sarah delay Sookie?

3. To where is Sookie invited?

4. Why has Portia been friendly to Bill?

5. Who is Gabe?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Sookie when she is almost out of the church?

2. What does Godfrey tell Sookie and what does she say to him about the ceremony the next day?

3. How does Sookie and the others feel about Hugo and Isabel's punishment?

4. What does JB look like and what does Sookie do when she sees Bill at the game with Portia?

5. Why does Sookie contact Bill and how does she do it?

6. Where do Sookie and Bill go the night of Godfrey's suicide?

7. What does Sookie find out when she gets back to the hotel from the church?

8. What does Sookie hear outside the mansion at the celebration party and what does she do?

9. What does Eric talk Sookie into and what does she see Bill doing? How does she react to Bill's behavior?

10. Who invites Sookie to the sex club and who does she invite to go with her?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sookie Stackhouse is in some ways a larger-than-life heroine. Despite incredible odds, she usually comes out on top, in Living Dead in Dallas and in the others in the series. Discuss the following:

1. Does being a larger-than-life heroine or one with special abilities make that person less of a heroine? In other words, which is more admirable--a heroine who ultimately always "lands on her feet," or one who strives against impossible odds and doesn't always succeed?

2. Does a character have to be successful in order to be a hero? Explain your answer.

3. Choose one other character besides Sookie who you might call a hero/heroine and explain why you choose that person. Illustrate your statements with examples from the text.

4. Does every work of fiction have to have a hero? Explain your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss one of the following:

1. Trace and analyze one major theme of Living Dead in Dallas. Consider the following: How does one character's actions portray the theme you are analyzing? How does the setting contribute to that theme? Is the theme one that you would call a "universal theme"? If so, what other book or novel that you have read also includes this theme. If not, why don't you think it is a "universal" theme?

2. Trace and analyze two secondary themes of Living Dead in Dallas. How does one character's actions portray the themes you are analyzing? How does the setting contribute to those themes? Is each theme one that you would call a "universal theme"? If so, what other book or novel that you have read also includes this theme. If not, why don't you think it is a "universal" theme?

3. What benefit is there in discussing and analyzing the themes of a work of fiction? Do you think most authors consciously develop themes in their works? Why or why not? Can there be accidental themes? What do you think is one possible "accidental" theme in Living Dead in Dallas? Which theme in Living Dead in Dallas speaks to you the most in your life? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss one of the following:

1. Thoroughly analyze how the setting informs the plot in Living Dead in Dallas.

2. Trace and analyze one major theme of Living Dead in Dallas. How is the theme represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?

3. Trace and analyze two secondary themes of Living Dead in Dallas. How are the themes represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?

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