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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Armand and Daniel meet?
(a) Armand finds Daniel snooping around New Orleans, looking for vampires.
(b) Through an internet dating site called vHarmony.
(c) Armand was the college roommate of one of Daniel's friends.
(d) Lestat introduces them.

2. Why does Khayman decide to go to the live concert in San Francisco?
(a) Because he thinks it will be his generation's Woodstock.
(b) Because he has no friends and nowhere else to go.
(c) Because he has always wanted to ride the cable cars.
(d) Because he hears Lestat's music.

3. In what period of time does the "Queen of the Damned" take place?
(a) Ten days.
(b) A month.
(c) Two hours.
(d) A decade.

4. Who was Akasha in a past life?
(a) An orphan in Italy.
(b) A Greek goddess.
(c) Queen of Egypt.
(d) Queen of Great Britain.

5. What does Lestat hope will happen at the concert?
(a) That his mother will meet a suitable vampire of her own age and get her own apartment.
(b) That mortals will recognize him as evil and want to destroy him.
(c) That his album will go platinum and he will buy Neverland Ranch.
(d) That other vampires will follow his lead and reveal themselves to humans.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Pandora headed when the reader first sees her?

2. What does Lestat look like?

3. Who causes the coven house to explode when Khayman visits?

4. How is Enkil related to Akasha?

5. What does Daniel have to do to avoid being killed by Armand?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Khayman, before the concert, gets up to move closer to another vampire, the narrator says: "He would be near to one of these two...That's what he had wanted in Athens...To be near another like himself. To speak, to touch...something." What theme does this passage illustrate?

2. Why is Baby Jenks feeling disturbed?

3. What is Armand's dilemma in deciding whether to make Daniel a vampire?

4. Why do some of the vampires view their telepathic gift--the ability to read the minds of mortals and other vampires--as something of a curse?

5. How are Khayman and Akasha related in terms of age and power? What do these factors mean in terms of their modern-day relationship?

6. How does Akasha mock Marius when she awakens?

7. During the concert, Jesse throws herself against Lestat and wraps her arms around him. Why does she feel the need to touch him, and what does she learn from the experience?

8. What has Marius done to entertain Akasha and Enkil over the centuries?

9. Why does Baby Jenks dislike her mother?

10. What seems to be happening in the first cave paintings of the twins?

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