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

2. What physical effect does the drinking of blood have on a vampire, according to Louis?
(a) It makes him pale
(b) It leaves him drugged
(c) It warms his body
(d) It has no effect

3. How does Louis know Lestat is alive just prior to their midnight departure time?
(a) Lestat beckons from the street below
(b) Lestat calls out to him
(c) Claudia sees him
(d) Louis hears his step on the stairs

4. What did Paul aspire to become?
(a) A journalist
(b) A priest
(c) A vampire
(d) A farmer

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Lestat realizes that there was something wrong with him, what does Claudia tell him about the blood of the boy she'd given him as a gift?

2. What is the boy's initial reaction to the news that Louis is a vampire?

3. How does Lestat teach Louis it's possible to travel by ship?

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

5. What happens to keep Louis from killing the girl?

Short Essay Questions

1. What adorns the walls of the huge ballroom below the theater?

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

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. Why does Louis say that closing the coffin for his daily period of sleep continues to be worrisome even after he gets past his dread of the coffin?

6. What does Armand say about having a child become a vampire?

7. Louis says he expected Madeline to come to hate her life as a vampire once she realizes that it is now the reality of her life, but comes to realize that there's a reason she doesn't. What is that reason?

8. What does Louis say is the reaction of the priest when Louis confesses that he cannot live with himself after Paul's death?

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

10. What does Louis say he feels for Babette?

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