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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. What is the name of Louis's younger brother?
(a) James
(b) Paul
(c) Claude
(d) Lestat

2. What change does Claudia prompt in Louis?
(a) That he wear red-lined jackets
(b) That he wear bright colors
(c) That he wear capes every day
(d) That he change his austere black clothing for softer styles and colors

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

4. What does Lestat discover when he tries to leave the following night?
(a) That the room is flooded
(b) That Louis is too drunk to leave
(c) That it's too light to leave
(d) That Babette has locked them in

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Claudia suggests that they people the world with vampires, what does Lestat say?

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

3. What happens to the man who secures the room for Lestat and Louis once they arrive in New Orleans from the Freniere plantation?

4. What claim did Paul make that prompted the argument with Louis?

5. What does Louis say eventually occurs to him with regard to Claudia's life as a vampire?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lestat's father believe to be the cause of Lestat's odd hours?

2. What is the meaning of Claudia's statement that Louis "Let the flesh instruct the mind?"

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. What does Claudia do that brings suspicion on the trio?

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

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

7. What news does Armand offer about Claudia's chances of survival when he releases Louis from the coffin at the theater? Why does he say this?

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

9. 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?

10. After they leave Lestat's body for dead, Claudia frantically goes through his things. What does she say she's looking for?

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