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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Marahet say about Akasha?
(a) "My loyalty is to the Queen and the rest of you are damned."
(b) "She is the Queen of the Damned and the Damned can't live without her."
(c) "We are damned if we do kill her and damned if we don't."
(d) "She has a vicious temper, but she loves us all as her children."

2. What does Marius wish he had done when he had the chance?
(a) Danced and made merry, without the worry of keeping the Queen and King.
(b) Disappeared into the centuries to lead a life of debauchery.
(c) Written down his experiences and made them into a blockbuster movie.
(d) Destroyed the Queen and King and,with them, all vampires.

3. Who or what mortally wounded Akasha and Enkil when they were humans?
(a) Khayman, out of guilt for what they made him do to the twins.
(b) An evil spirit, acting on behest of the red-haired twins.
(c) Noblemen, who wanted to be rid of the king and queen so they could return to their old traditions.
(d) A falling marble pillar, rocked from its foundation in an earthquake.

4. What insight does Akasha have at the conference that both shocks and saddens her?
(a) Lestat has been seeing Jesse all along.
(b) The survivors lntend to withdraw her blood and bank it for future use.
(c) Every single one of the survivors is doomed to die from sun-poisoning.
(d) Not a single one of the survivors, not even Lestat, agrees with her vision.

5. Akasha knows something about Lestat's nature. What is it?
(a) He has attention deficit disorder.
(b) He is argumentative.
(c) He cannot obey anyone for very long.
(d) He is a compulsive overeater.

6. What is the reaction of Akasha and Enkil to their transformation?
(a) Lust.
(b) Pleasure.
(c) Indifference.
(d) Shame.

7. What image blinks through Lestat's mind when he looks at Jesse?
(a) A mud-covered woman striding through the forest.
(b) A witch melting, melting...into a puddle of water.
(c) Two red-haired women with the body of their mother.
(d) Black crows plucking out the eyes of a witch.

8. What has Jesse seen that startles Marius?
(a) The possibility of making a hit television series about vampires.
(b) The pinnacle of Mt. Everest where there is secret coven.
(c) The painting Marius made of Armand, surrounded by angels.
(d) A ruby ring worn by the mother of the red-haired twins.

9. What is Armand dreaming when Akasha lets Lestat see him?
(a) A polar bear tracking salmon.
(b) A falcon hunting on the plains.
(c) A lioness stalking wild deer along the Amazon.
(d) A red-haired woman walking in the jungle.

10. What is Lestat imbibing when he is with Akasha that gives him power and pleasure?
(a) Akasha's blood.
(b) Stolen morphine.
(c) Baby Jenks' dreams.
(d) Armand's tears.

11. What is the reaction of the other vampires as Akasha is destroyed?
(a) They, too, begin to die.
(b) They ask for a bite of her brain and her heart.
(c) They realize they will miss her, and begin to weep.
(d) They race from the room.

12. What is Akasha's response when Lestat demands they go to his friends?
(a) She calls for the bellman.
(b) She laughs hysterically.
(c) She slaps him.
(d) She kisses him passionately.

13. What does Akasha want Lestat to do for her?
(a) She wants him to create grand feasts for her.
(b) She wants him to renounce his immortality.
(c) She wants him to bring her victims with a certain blood type.
(d) She wants him to kill mortals for her.

14. What is the disagreement between Lestat and Akasha?
(a) Lestat wants Chinese for dinner; Akasha insists on Greek.
(b) Akasha wants to make all women into vampires; Lestat prefers that men only be made.
(c) Lestat is against killing the men; Akasha insists it will eventually bring world peace.
(d) Lestat is all for killing as many men as possible; Akasha protests that only a few should be killed.

15. What secret does Khayman keep from the King and Queen after the twins return home?
(a) That a band of spirits would help him flee Egypt.
(b) The evil spirit Amel was tormenting him, disrupting his home and stealing things.
(c) He knew the location of a tomb holding vast golden treasures.
(d) That Mahareta had born his child.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Maharet reveal to the gathering?

2. How do Mekare and Maharet rescue the king and queen?

3. What argument is made regarding mortals in hopes of stalling Akasha's plan?

4. Gabrielle wants to destroy Akasha for taking her son, Lestat. What does she ask Maharet about that plan?

5. What is the threat made against Akasha by one of the twins?

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