Deck 44: The Vampire As Hero: Tales of the Undead in a Contemporary Context, Eva M Thury

Question 1

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

A) the inherent violent tendencies in all human beings
B) the greed found throughout our society
C) the rampant immorality of society
D) the growing importance of individual desires

Answer 1

B

Question 2

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

A) powerful savior
B) potent sex object
C) powerful icon
D) strong role model

Answer 2

C

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_______________.

A) splitting the mother
B) joining the father
C) growing up
D) birthing the id

Answer 3

A

Question 4

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

A) depressive anxiety
B) maturation anxiety
C) Oedipal anxiety
D) persecutory anxiety

Question 5

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

A) vampire orphans
B) orphaned and genetically enhanced
C) orphaned or abused
D) orphaned or poorly mothered

Question 6

In Melanie Klein's method of analysis, boys and girls _____________________________________________.

A) undergo different preoedipal experiences
B) undergo the same preoedipal experiences
C) undergo the same process identified by Jungian analysis
D) are both attracted to their siblings

Question 7

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

A) do not control their feeding
B) feed only on willing donors
C) guard those vampires too weak to protect themselves
D) are half-human and half-vampire

Question 8

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

A) meeting with the goddess
B) blood pact
C) proper quest
D) sacred vow

Question 9

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

A) moral and virtuous
B) grotesque and frightening
C) dull and boring
D) mundane or normal

Question 10

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

A) conservative ideology
B) feminist ideology
C) political extremism
D) liberal ideology

Question 11

In the Twilight series, sex and vampire feeding must be______________

A) outlawed
B) encouraged
C) repressed
D) learned

Question 12

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

A) sex and death
B) food and sex
C) food and feeding
D) sex and journeys

Question 13

The protagonist who says, ""I don't date vampires. I kill them," is

A) Anita Blake
B) Bella Swan
C) Rose Hathaway
D) Buffy Summers

Question 14

Author Stephenie Meyer sees the same rapacious world as Richelle Mead, but Meyer sees ________________________ as the solution.

Question 15

Edward is the hero of the Twilight series, because he is the one who keeps Bella____________________.

Question 16

According to Melanie Klein's theory, Bella's "inappropriate mothering" causes her longing not only for Edward, but for his_________________.

Question 17

Laurel K. Hamilton's Anita Blake is filled with _____________________ due to her early experiences with being poorly mothered.

Question 18

Melanie Klein would say that Anita Blake's talents have allowed her to split off the good __________________ into the creativity which constitutes her psychic powers.

Question 19

Through her association with the vampire Jean-Claude, Anita Blake acquires the ardeur, the ability to feed through________________.

Question 20

Anita Blake learns to take better care of herself after she embraces her ___________________.

Question 21

Anita Blake battles a series of terrifying____________________ that are associated with the "bad breast."

Question 22

If anger characterizes our era, as suggested in the beginning of this chapter, then the person who can conquer that anger is a____________________.

Question 23

Vampires represent coming to terms with the death instinct as well as the life force represented by_____________________.

Question 24

The protagonist who comes to terms with the vampire becomes, in terms outlined by ______________________, "the master of both worlds."

Question 25

The protagonists in the three vampire series described in this chapter grow into power by ______________ the strength of the vampire.

Question 26

The world vampire heroes live in is ____________________ world, but they are able to cope with it.