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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 is Armand's real motivation for making Daniel a vampire?
2. What is Maharet's family role?
3. When Baby Jenks reveals to her mother that she was no longer a virgin, what does her mother do?
4. What has Baby Jenks seen while searching for the Fang Gang?
5. When do other vampires plan to kill Lestat?
Short Essay Questions
1. Are there other factors besides love in the reunion of Daniel and Armand?
2. What happens to Daniel after ten years, when Armand doesn't make him a vampire?
3. Why doesn't Pandora like to fly, even though she can?
4. Why does Khayman hate Akasha?
5. Why is Baby Jenks feeling disturbed?
6. Mael is at Lestat's concert. What is he doing there and who sent him? Who volunteers to be his ally?
7. What has Marius done to entertain Akasha and Enkil over the centuries?
8. What does the first paragraph in Part 1, Chapter 3, The Goddess Pandora tell you about Pandora? Does it give you a feeling of Pandora's attitude as well as her appearance?
9. Why does Baby Jenks dislike her mother?
10. How are Khayman and Akasha related in terms of age and power? What do these factors mean in terms of their modern-day relationship?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Both Pandora and Khayman are portrayed as longing to be human, and Khayman is described as almost unbearably lonely during the concert events. Analyze their characters, the relationship between the two (if any), and the reasons why the author put these two characters together.
Essay Topic 2
From the start, various characters in The Queen of the Damned express the desire to be--or at least, to feel--human. Lestat, Armand and Pandora all have different strategies for recalling the sensations of being alive and human. What is it that the vampires miss about being human? What are the sensations they miss, how do they attempt to relive them, and are they successful in their efforts? Give examples and evidence from the text.
Essay Topic 3
Mahareta shows her fellow surviving vampires a family tree of the mortal descendants of her daughter Miriam. She says that protecting that family as it grew and spread gave her a reason for continuing. The other vampires are moved and acknowledge the importance of these mortals. What is it about the family that is important to the vampires? What are they willing to sacrifice in order to protect that family and other mortal families? How do the feelings expressed by the vampires fit into the themes of the book?
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