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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has caused a great increase in the number of orphans
(a) Vampires killing parents
(b) Children running away from home
(c) Plague killing parents
(d) Parents abandoning children

2. How does Louis justify his decision to drink from the little girl again?
(a) He knows that she's strong enough to withstand his drinking
(b) He says that she'll have no chance in life as an orphan
(c) He says she's pretty and allures him
(d) He wants to take care of her

3. What does Babette hit Louis with as he is preparing to leave the plantation?
(a) A wine bottle
(b) A shovel
(c) A lantern
(d) A cross

4. 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 throw a charity ball
(b) To marry
(c) To ignore them
(d) To find someone else to run the plantation

5. What is the boy's initial reaction to the news that Louis is a vampire?
(a) He runs away
(b) He doesn't believe it
(c) He's afraid
(d) He wants to become a vampire also

6. What kind of person does Louis say Lestat preferred, especially for his first kill of the evening?
(a) A slave
(b) He preferred animals
(c) A fresh young girl
(d) A wealthy person

7. What does Lestat call the little girl?
(a) Candy
(b) Carleena
(c) Corina
(d) Claudia

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

9. When Claudia and Louis are watching outside for the person she claims followed her home, they hear a noise. Who is in the house at that point?
(a) A child
(b) Lestat
(c) The musician
(d) The police

10. What color is the dress Claudia wears on the night they plan to leave for Europe?
(a) Grey
(b) Red
(c) Black
(d) Yellow

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

12. What does Louis do following the death of the Franiere boy?
(a) Goes to his sister, Babette, with advice regarding the plantation
(b) Drinks his blood before he dies
(c) Buries him in a marshy area
(d) Returns home

13. Why does Louis kill one of the women in their hotel room?
(a) Louis doesn't kill either of the women
(b) Louis is hungry
(c) Lestat convinces Louis to drink
(d) Lestat leaves her alive, terrified and in his coffin

14. What does option does Lestat give Claudia on her first day with him?
(a) To leave to find her mother
(b) To become a vampire or die
(c) To drink more from the slave boy who was dead
(d) To sleep with Lestat or with Louis

15. What change does Claudia prompt in Louis?
(a) That he wear capes every day
(b) That he wear bright colors
(c) That he wear red-lined jackets
(d) That he change his austere black clothing for softer styles and colors

Short Answer Questions

1. How do they hide what happened to the man?

2. When Claudia returns home just as they are planning to leave for Europe, who does she say has followed her?

3. What does the little girl ask as soon as she's revived?

4. What does Louis learn is Babette's fate?

5. Why does Claudia sleep with Louis?

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