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

2. What excuse does Louis offer to avoid his sister's wedding?
(a) That he must tend Lestat's father
(b) That he has a malarial chill
(c) That he is away on business
(d) That he doesn't like her husband

3. What do chrysanthemums stand for in Claudia's mind?
(a) Marriage
(b) Birth
(c) Death
(d) Punishment

4. How old was Claudia when she came to live with Louis and Lestat?
(a) Five
(b) Seven
(c) Six
(d) Four

5. What is the reaction of the priest when Louis goes into the confessional and claims to be immortal?
(a) He is angry, accusing Louis of making a joke and asking if he has no fear of God
(b) He threatens to turn Louis in to the authorities
(c) He believes Louis to be honestly troubled and urges him to go on
(d) He protects himself with a cross, forcing Louis from the church

Short Answer Questions

1. When Lestat kills two who have been drinking wine, he himself feels the effects. What does he say about the feeling?

2. What trick does Claudia often use to find a victim for feeding?

3. What does Claudia hit Lestat with as Lestat and Louis fight on the night Louis and Claudia plan to leave for Europe?

4. What color is the dress Claudia wears on the night they plan to leave for Europe?

5. What did Paul aspire to become?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Armand says that he killed Claudia. What was his purpose for telling this to Louis?

4. Louis says that he preferred taking the life of an animal over that of a human. What reason does he give?

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

8. How does Claudia go about choosing a coffin of her own? What becomes of it?

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

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

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