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

2. What is the play Lestat loves and that he and Louis see over and over?
(a) Frankenstein
(b) Hamlet
(c) Macbeth
(d) Peter Pan

3. What happens the first time Louis drinks the blood of his own victim?
(a) He faints
(b) He completes the transition to become a vampire
(c) He gets sick
(d) He asks for more

4. What does Louis insist Lestat do before he agrees to kill Lestat's father?
(a) Tell the old man he's loved
(b) Tell the old man he's forgiven
(c) Nothing
(d) Cover his head with a pillow

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do chrysanthemums stand for in Claudia's mind?

3. What does Louis give the young musician when he comes searching for Lestat?

4. What did Paul aspire to become?

5. Why does Claudia sleep with Louis?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Louis tell Claudia about how she became a vampire?

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

3. What is Lestat's condition when Louis again finds him? What does he ask Louis to do?

4. Why does Louis say Lestat makes Claudia into a vampire?

5. How does Claudia carry out her plan to kill Lestat?

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

7. Why is it that Claudia's remains were nothing but ashes while Madeline's remains were more substantial?

8. 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?

9. What does Lestat say about a vampire who is starving?

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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