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

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

3. Where did Louis go when Pointe du Lac burned?
(a) To New Orleans
(b) To the slave quarters
(c) To the Freniere plantation
(d) To the marsh

4. What does Lestat say will be their relationship to the little girl?
(a) That she's their slave
(b) That she's their daughter
(c) That she'll now help them kill
(d) That she's to be Lestat's alone

5. What excuse does Louis offer so that he can miss his mother's funeral?
(a) He doesn't want to see his sister
(b) He has a malarial chill
(c) He must tend Lestat's father
(d) He is away on business

Short Answer Questions

1. Who killed Lestat's father?

2. What happens the first time Louis drinks the blood of his own victim?

3. Who does Louis kill just before burning Pointe du Lac?

4. What effect does Louis say a cross has on a vampire?

5. Why does the interviewer say he wants to hear the rest of Louis's story?

Short Essay Questions

1. Louis says that Lestat would have loved a young man such as the interviewer. Why?

2. What is the meaning of Claudia's statement that Louis "Let the flesh instruct the mind?"

3. What is it that Louis comes to understand about Lestat's failure as a teacher?

4. What is the brief debate between Claudia and Louis regarding the power of fire?

5. What is it that Louis wonders about Lestat's body as it lies in the swamp.

6. What time of day does Louis set fire to the theater and why?

7. What does the interviewer do as soon as he wakes from the encounter with Louis?

8. The girl killed on stage by the vampires is offered a way to save her life. What is her option and what does Louis know would happen if she chose that option?

9. Who is it that Louis feeds on during that night they are scheduled to leave for Europe? What conversation passes between Louis and his victim?

10. What news does Armand offer about Claudia's chances of survival when he releases Louis from the coffin at the theater? Why does he say this?

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