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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Louis find the child?

2. How old was Claudia when she came to live with Louis and Lestat?

3. What physical effect does the drinking of blood have on a vampire, according to Louis?

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

5. What does Lestat do to assuage the child's hunger?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does the interviewer do as soon as he wakes from the encounter with Louis?

4. What does Armand say about having a child become a vampire?

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

6. What does Lestat use to convince Louis to remain with him?

7. What is it that Louis comes to understand about Lestat's failure as a teacher?

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

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

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the role of the interviewer in this story. Could the story have been effectively related by some other means? Support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Describe the details of Louis's first kill. What changes over the coming years? Compare that to how Lestat's attitude about killing changes over the years.

Essay Topic 3

Louis says that there is no difference between "coming to know" the evil of the life of a vampire and "being catapulted into it." Do you agree?

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