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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 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?
(a) That Louis persuaded her
(b) That there was nothing wrong
(c) That it was tainted with absinthe and laudanum
(d) That the boy was sick with the plague

2. After leaving the hotel, where do Louis and Lestat live?
(a) In a town house on the Rue Royale
(b) In a secure courtyard
(c) They return to Pointe du Lac
(d) In a tailor's shop

3. What request does Lestat's father make as he lies dying in his bed?
(a) That Lestate kill himself
(b) That Lestat forgive him for brining him home from school
(c) That Lestat end his father's life
(d) That Lestate give up killing

4. What claim did Paul make that prompted the argument with Louis?
(a) That he was a vampire
(b) That he was seeing visions
(c) That he was a priest
(d) That he was able to run the planation alone

5. In what city is the interview conducted?
(a) San Francisco
(b) Paris
(c) Washington
(d) Divisadero

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Louis know Lestat is alive just prior to their midnight departure time?

2. Why does Lestat say he can't kill his father?

3. Why does Claudia sleep with Louis?

4. What does Lestate say will happen to Louis if he is outdoors in the sunshine?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. Why does Armand want so desperately to be with Louis?

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

6. What is Louis's concern when Babette says that Louis is "from the Devil?"

7. What is the condition of Lestat's body when he returns to the townhouse after having been left for dead in the swamp?

8. What strange "illness" strikes the ship on which Claudia and Louis travel to Europe?

9. Describe the sounds Louis described as Lestat took his life.

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

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