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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What excuse does Louis offer to avoid his sister's wedding?
(a) That he is away on business
(b) That he has a malarial chill
(c) That he doesn't like her husband
(d) That he must tend Lestat's father

2. When Lestat kills two who have been drinking wine, he himself feels the effects. What does he say about the feeling?
(a) That he wants more
(b) He wants Louis to find an inebriated person of his own
(c) That he doesn't like it
(d) That there's no effect

3. What happens to the child after Louis drinks of her blood?
(a) She goes home with her father
(b) She's taken to a hospital
(c) She dies
(d) She goes home with her mother

4. What does Louis say he discovered about Lestat's chief reason for killing as a vampire?
(a) It's the need to survive
(b) It's revenge
(c) It's sadness at his plight
(d) It's only his need for blood that drives him

5. What does Claudia hit Lestat with as Lestat and Louis fight on the night Louis and Claudia plan to leave for Europe?
(a) A hammer
(b) A lamp
(c) A book
(d) A poker

6. How does the Freniere boy die?
(a) He's stabbed during a duel
(b) He's shot following a duel
(c) He drowns
(d) He's killed by Lestat

7. How does Louis intend to live following the burning of Point du Lac?
(a) He and Lestat can steal what they need
(b) He has no plan
(c) He plans to take the Frenier plantation
(d) He has investments in many different names

8. As Louis talks with his interviewer, he notes the flask in the young man's back pocket and suggests that he take a drink. What was the young man's response?
(a) That he didn't think it would be polite
(b) That he's afraid to get drunk
(c) That he desperately needs a drink
(d) That he has nothing in the flask

9. How do they hide what happened to the man?
(a) Buries it on the plantation
(b) Hides it in the swamp
(c) Puts it beside the road so that it looks like a robbery
(d) Takes it to New Orleans

10. How does Louis find the child?
(a) He hears her crying
(b) Lestat leads him to her
(c) He finds her walking toward home
(d) He sees her playing

11. What does Claudia tell Lestat as she presents him with his gift?
(a) That she wants to stop the arguing
(b) That she wants her freedom in return
(c) That she wants him to share with Louis
(d) That she wants him to be well fed

12. What does Lestat discover when he tries to leave the following night?
(a) That Babette has locked them in
(b) That Louis is too drunk to leave
(c) That the room is flooded
(d) That it's too light to leave

13. What does Lestat do to assuage the child's hunger?
(a) Calls for a meal
(b) Allows her to drink from him again
(c) Calls for a slave boy and teaches her to drink
(d) Allows her to drink from Louis

14. What advice does Louis give Babette when she is facing the scorn of the community for taking the reins of her family's plantation?
(a) To ignore them
(b) To throw a charity ball
(c) To find someone else to run the plantation
(d) To marry

15. Where does Lestat take the little girl once they leave the hospital?
(a) To Pointe du Lac
(b) To Paris
(c) To her house
(d) To their hotel room

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the man who secures the room for Lestat and Louis once they arrive in New Orleans from the Freniere plantation?

2. How does Louis dispose of Lestat's body?

3. What has caused a great increase in the number of orphans

4. What is the name of Louis's younger brother?

5. What is the play Lestat loves and that he and Louis see over and over?

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