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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. Where does Sookie go a few days after seeing Bill?

2. What does Portia hope to prove?

3. What is JB's weak point?

4. How much time passes since the party?

5. To what meeting does Portia want to be invited?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who does Sookie sit with at a local high school football game?

3. What behavior of Bill's suggests he can read Sookie's mind?

4. What does Sookie do after she sees Hugo and Isabel's punishment?

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

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

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

8. What does Gabe do after Hugo and Sookie are in the basement?

9. What does Sookie find when she arrives home?

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

Discuss the following:

1. Compare/contrast Sookie's world to that of "real" life. What are the advantages to each world? The disadvantages?

2. In which world would you rather live in if you possess no supernatural abilities? Explain your response.

3. If you had Sookie's abilities how would you use them? Use examples from Living Dead in Dallas and your own life to illustrate your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Many readers of fiction place themselves in the position of one character, wondering if they would do the same thing as that character. Discuss the following:

1. Do you think one of the values of literature is to serve as a reflection of oneself? Why or why not?

2. Socrates said "Know thyself." How can reading a book such as Living Dead in Dallas help a reader to know him/herself? Do you find yourself reflecting on your own character and abilities when reading Living Dead in Dallas? Why or why not.

3. Choose one specific incident in Living Dead in Dallas to discuss and compare Sookie's response to how you think you would respond.

Essay Topic 3

Living Dead in Dallas is one book in a series of books about Sookie Stackhouse.

1. What are two advantages of writing a series of novels about the same characters? Illustrate your statements with details from the text.

2. What is a disadvantage of writing a series of novels about the same characters? Illustrate your statements with details from the text.

3. Do you prefer to read a standalone book, or a series of books with the same main characters? Explain your response.

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