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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lestat tell the doctor in order to have the little girl released to him?
(a) That Louis is her father
(b) That they want to buy the little girl
(c) That he's her brother
(d) That he's her father

2. What excuse does Louis offer to avoid his sister's wedding?
(a) That he has a malarial chill
(b) That he doesn't like her husband
(c) That he must tend Lestat's father
(d) That he is away on business

3. What happens to the man who secures the room for Lestat and Louis once they arrive in New Orleans from the Freniere plantation?
(a) He takes his payment and flees
(b) Louis kills him
(c) He doesn't return
(d) Lestat kills him

4. What does Lestate say will happen to Louis if he is outdoors in the sunshine?
(a) He'll evaporate
(b) He'll burn up
(c) Nothing, it's another of the myths about vampires
(d) He'll die because his blood would dry up

5. What do Louis and Claudia come to believe has happened to the boy when he first comes searching for Lestat?
(a) That Lestat has been feeding on the boy
(b) That the boy has died and been resurrected
(c) That he's lost
(d) That the boy has been poisoned

6. What do Louis and Claudia discover has happened to the young musician once they see him just before midnight?
(a) He's holding up Lestat
(b) He's dressed in a cape
(c) He's near death
(d) He's become a vampire

7. What does Lestat say is true of his relationship with Louis?
(a) That they are partners
(b) That Louis will never be the killer a vampire must be
(c) That Louis is his slave
(d) That Louis is physically superior but mentally inferior to Lestat

8. Who moves into Pointe du Lac with Louis and Lestat?
(a) Lestat's blind father
(b) The overseer
(c) Paul
(d) A journalist

9. When Louis and Lestat arrive in New Orleans the day after the burning of Pointe du Lac, what does Louis choose for sustenance?
(a) A dead woman
(b) A rat
(c) A child
(d) An old man

10. What does Lestat discover when he tries to leave the following night?
(a) That it's too light to leave
(b) That Babette has locked them in
(c) That the room is flooded
(d) That Louis is too drunk to leave

11. Why does the interviewer say he wants to hear the rest of Louis's story?
(a) He wants to know what happens
(b) He wants to become a vampire himself
(c) He wants to find Lestat
(d) He understands Louis's pain

12. Why does Louis kill one of the women in their hotel room?
(a) Louis doesn't kill either of the women
(b) Lestat convinces Louis to drink
(c) Louis is hungry
(d) Lestat leaves her alive, terrified and in his coffin

13. What does Louis say eventually occurs to him with regard to Claudia's life as a vampire?
(a) That she's growing heavier with her constant killing
(b) That she's turning into a tremendous killer
(c) That she's growing slimmer on her diet of blood
(d) That she's never going to grow up physically

14. What does Claudia say will be the outcome if Louis interferes with her plan to kill Lestat?
(a) That Louis will be killed
(b) That she'll be killed
(c) That they won't be able to leave
(d) That Lestat will escape

15. What do chrysanthemums stand for in Claudia's mind?
(a) Marriage
(b) Death
(c) Birth
(d) Punishment

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of person does Louis say Lestat preferred, especially for his first kill of the evening?

2. What did Paul aspire to become?

3. What claim did Paul make that prompted the argument with Louis?

4. What does Louis say he discovered about Lestat's chief reason for killing as a vampire?

5. Why does Lestat say he can't kill his father?

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