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

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

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

4. How does the house come to be on fire as Louis and Lestat fight?
(a) Lestat threw the lamp at Louis
(b) Claudia scattered hot coals as she grabbed the poker
(c) Louis threw the lamp at Lestat
(d) Lestat set the fire in order to get into the house

5. Lestat kills two women in the New Orleans hotel room. What does he do with their bodies?
(a) Drops them on the floor where he leaves them
(b) Places them in his coffin
(c) Hides them
(d) Poses them at the dining table

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Paul buried?

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

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

4. What physical effect does the drinking of blood have on a vampire, according to Louis?

5. After leaving the hotel, where do Louis and Lestat live?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What actions happen between Lestat and Louis in order for Louis to become a vampire?

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

4. Describe Louis's first interaction with a vampire in Paris.

5. What does Lestat use to convince Louis to remain with him?

6. On the subject of the purchase of a carriage used to travel the countryside of Europe, Louis says that Claudia exhibited the traits of both he and Lestat. What traits does he say she got from each of the two men?

7. Armand says he couldn't stop Claudia's death. What is Louis's response?

8. 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?

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

10. One of the vampire women says the men who created the paintings on the ballroom walls are evil. Why does she say this is true?

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