QUESTION 1

In examining our enchantment with villains, it is important to note the predominant characteristic of our age, _____________________________________________.

1. the inherent violent tendencies in all human beings
2. the greed found throughout our society
3. the rampant immorality of society
4. the growing importance of individual desires

Question 2

Our political climate has resulted in the reformulation of the image of the vampire as a _________________.

1. powerful savior
2. potent sex object
3. powerful icon
4. strong role model

Question 3

The work of psychologist Melanie Klein is useful in explaining our fascination with vampires. Klein examines the processes an infant undergoes in forming its ego, resulting in_______________.

1. splitting the mother
2. joining the father
3. growing up
4. birthing the id

Question 4

The fantasy of devouring the mother through vampire-like sucking characterizes the first process experienced by the infant, called __________________________.

1. depressive anxiety
2. maturation anxiety
3. Oedipal anxiety
4. persecutory anxiety

Question 5

In many contemporary vampire tales, female main characters tend to be_______________________________.

1. vampire orphans
2. orphaned and genetically enhanced
3. orphaned or abused
4. orphaned or poorly mothered

Question 6

1. In Melanie Klein’s method of analysis, boys and girls _____________________________________________.
2. undergo different preoedipal experiences
3. undergo the same preoedipal experiences
4. undergo the same process identified by Jungian analysis
5. are both attracted to their siblings

Question 7

In the Vampire Academy series, the Moroi are vampires who ________________________________.

1. do not control their feeding
2. feed only on willing donors
3. guard those vampires too weak to protect themselves
4. are half-human and half-vampire

Question 8

In Blood Promise, Rose takes part in a ___________________________, as outlined by Joseph Campbell.

1. meeting with the goddess
2. blood pact
3. proper quest
4. sacred vow

Question 9Vampire stories are typically set in a world which is rather_____________, except for the presence of vampires.

1. moral and virtuous
2. grotesque and frightening
3. dull and boring
4. mundane or normal

Question 10

According to the ___________________ in the Twilight series, sex should be delayed until marriage

1. conservative ideology
2. feminist ideology
3. political extremism
4. liberal ideology

Question 11

In the Twilight series, sex and vampire feeding must be______________

1. outlawed
2. encouraged
3. repressed
4. learned

Question 12

In the world of the Twilight series, ______ are associated with mothering.

1. sex and death
2. food and sex
3. food and feeding
4. sex and journeys

Question 13

The protagonist who says, “”I don’t date vampires. I kill them,” is

Anita Blake

Bella Swan

Rose Hathaway

Buffy Summers