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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. What is the "blood god" wearing when Akasha and Lestat arrive?
(a) A Juicy Couture velour sweat suit.
(b) A caftan of spun gold.
(c) A black silk turban and jeweled robes.
(d) A suit woven of the softest cashmere.

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

3. Where had Lestat been happiest?
(a) As a rock star in San Francisco.
(b) As a vampire drinking his mother's blood.
(c) As a child, in the monastery.
(d) As a singer in Paris.

4. Who controlls the spirits?
(a) The royal couple controlls them.
(b) The red-haired twins.
(c) No one, they are independent.
(d) Only the poorest of the poor could command them.

5. 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) He knew the location of a tomb holding vast golden treasures.
(c) That Mahareta had born his child.
(d) The evil spirit Amel was tormenting him, disrupting his home and stealing things.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the meeting of Akasha and the others, where does Lestat sit?

2. Why doesn't Akasha accept Lestat's suggestion that she just dazzle men into obedience rather than kill them?

3. Lestat describes being "blanketed in succulent human flesh." How does he respond?

4. What insight does Akasha have at the conference that both shocks and saddens her?

5. What is Akasha's response when Lestat demands they go to his friends?

Short Essay Questions

1. Lestat is very reluctant to cooperate with Akasha's plan and tries to talk her out of it. What is it about him that attracts her, even though she can't control him?

2. Describe Lestat's feelings as he watches Akasha's plan unfolding.

3. What is Marius' reaction to the gathering of vampires which he has joined?

4. Does Lestat believe in Akasha's quest? Why or why not?

5. Maharet has searched for her twin for 6,000 years. What clues or proof has she had over that time that Mekare is alive?

6. Marius suggests that Akasha postpone her plans until she can see that humans are evolving toward peace on their own. What is Akasha's response?

7. Who was keeping Akasha still on the throne and what does she do to that person?

8. Enkil and Akasha are frightened and ashamed of what they have become, even though they have no name for it. What has come over them and how do they act?

9. Akasha wants 99 percent of male humans killed, reasoning that a world ruled by women will be more peaceful than the world under the rule of men. What is the irony of that plan?

10. When the twins fail to restore them, the King and Queen first vow to kill them but settle for plucking out Maharet's eyes and cutting out Mekare's tongue. What happens to the eyes and the tongue, and then what happens to the twins?

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