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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 do Louis and Claudia come to believe has happened to the boy when he first comes searching for Lestat?
2. Why does Claudia sleep with Louis?
3. What has caused a great increase in the number of orphans
4. After leaving the hotel, where do Louis and Lestat live?
5. What does Lestat tell the doctor in order to have the little girl released to him?
Short Essay Questions
1. On the subject of the purchase of a carriage used to travel the countryside of Europe, Louis says that Claudia exhibited the traits of both he and Lestat. What traits does he say she got from each of the two men?
2. What does the interviewer do as soon as he wakes from the encounter with Louis?
3. Why does Louis attack the interviewer?
4. While Louis tries to convince Babette that he is capable of doing good even if he himself is evil, he becomes weary. Why?
5. Armand says he couldn't stop Claudia's death. What is Louis's response?
6. What is the meaning of Claudia's statement that Louis "Let the flesh instruct the mind?"
7. What does Lestat's father believe to be the cause of Lestat's odd hours?
8. 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?
9. Louis says that Lestat would have loved a young man such as the interviewer. Why?
10. What is Lestat's condition when Louis again finds him? What does he ask Louis to do?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is it that Armand seeks to gain by his association with Louis? Why does this turn out to be impossible?
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
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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