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

2. What does Lestate say will happen to Louis if he is outdoors in the sunshine?
(a) He'll burn up
(b) Nothing, it's another of the myths about vampires
(c) He'll die because his blood would dry up
(d) He'll evaporate

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

4. How does Paul die?
(a) He falls down some steps
(b) Lestat drains him of his blood
(c) He hangs himself
(d) He is shot

5. What kind of person does Louis say Lestat preferred, especially for his first kill of the evening?
(a) A fresh young girl
(b) A slave
(c) A wealthy person
(d) He preferred animals

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Louis go when Pointe du Lac burned?

2. What does Louis say he discovered about Lestat's chief reason for killing as a vampire?

3. In what city is the interview conducted?

4. How does Louis find the child?

5. What is the name of Louis's younger brother?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Claudia say about Lestat's chances of surviving the fire at their New Orleans town house?

2. Why does Lestat say he and Louis should share a room at the plantation?

3. When Louis and Lestat are in the storage room at the Freniere plantation, Louis comes to a decision. What is it?

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

5. Why does Lestat want Louis to become a vampire?

6. Why does Armand say that he became a vampire?

7. 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?

8. How does Lestat teach Louis to handle financial matters?

9. What does Louis require of his own sister after Paul's death and why?

10. Why does Louis not drink of Morgan's blood when Claudia does so?

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