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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. What present does Claudia bring to Lestat?

2. What do Louis and Claudia come to believe has happened to the boy when he first comes searching for Lestat?

3. What kind of person does Louis say Lestat preferred, especially for his first kill of the evening?

4. What does Louis learn is Babette's fate?

5. How does Louis justify his decision to drink from the little girl again?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Lous spend his first night as a vampire? Why?

2. Armand says he couldn't stop Claudia's death. What is Louis's response?

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

4. Why does Claudia say the hotel in Paris is the perfect place for them to live?

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

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

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

8. 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?

9. What does Louis tell Claudia about how she became a vampire?

10. What is Louis's reaction when he and Lestat dispose of the overseer's body.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe how Claudia came to realize that she had been cheated by being made into a vampire at such a young age. Compare her reactions as she fully understands the situation to Armand's statement that a child should never be made into a vampire.

Essay Topic 2

Louis says that he had fooled himself into believing that he remained with Lestat for the sake of Lestat's father and Louis's sister. What does he eventually come to realize about this issue? How does that realization come about?

Essay Topic 3

Why does Claudia need Madeline? Compare the way Claudia came to be a vampire to the events that led to Madeline's transformation.

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