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

2. What does Louis learn is Babette's fate?
(a) That she went insane and died young
(b) That she lived happily to an old age
(c) That she lost the plantation and killed herself
(d) That she died in childbirth

3. 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 evaporate
(d) He'll die because his blood would dry up

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

5. What is the condition of Louis and Claudia as they leave the house?
(a) Claudia is near dead and racing ahead of Louis
(b) Their clothing is singed and Louis is carrying Claudia
(c) Claudia is dragging Louis because he fears leaving Lestat
(d) Louis is draggin Claudia because she fears leaving Lestat

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does the Freniere boy die?

3. Why does Claudia sleep with Louis?

4. When Claudia returns home just as they are planning to leave for Europe, who does she say has followed her?

5. What does Louis feel when Claudia wants a coffin of her own?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

6. What theories are offered for the reason the vampires Louis and Claudia encounter are all mindless corpses?

7. Why is the killing of a vampire considered such a great wrong?

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

9. While Louis tries to convince Babette that he is capable of doing good even if he himself is evil, he becomes weary. Why?

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

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