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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 advice does Louis give Babette when she is facing the scorn of the community for taking the reins of her family's plantation?

2. How does the Freniere boy die?

3. Who did Louis help Lestat kill first?

4. What does Lestat say will be their relationship to the little girl?

5. What does Louis feel when Claudia wants a coffin of her own?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Claudia go about choosing a coffin of her own? What becomes of it?

2. While Louis tries to convince Babette that he is capable of doing good even if he himself is evil, he becomes weary. Why?

3. Why does Lestat want Louis to become a vampire?

4. Where does Lous spend his first night as a vampire? Why?

5. What is it that Louis comes to understand about Lestat's failure as a teacher?

6. Why is the killing of a vampire considered such a great wrong?

7. Why is it that Claudia's remains were nothing but ashes while Madeline's remains were more substantial?

8. Louis says that Lestat would have loved a young man such as the interviewer. Why?

9. One of the vampire women says the men who created the paintings on the ballroom walls are evil. Why does she say this is true?

10. What is Lestat's condition when Louis again finds him? What does he ask Louis to do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

List at least three myths related to vampires that Louis dispels during the interview and describe how those came to be accepted as "fact."

Essay Topic 2

What is it that Armand seeks to gain by his association with Louis? Why does this turn out to be impossible?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the details of Louis's first kill. What changes over the coming years? Compare that to how Lestat's attitude about killing changes over the years.

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