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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 does Lestat say will be their relationship to the little girl?

2. What does Lestat do with the child's mother when he finds Louis with the little girl?

3. What does Claudia tell Lestat as she presents him with his gift?

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

5. What trick does Claudia often use to find a victim for feeding?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Claudia go about choosing a coffin of her own? What becomes of it?

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

3. What effect does Claudia's presences have on Louis's wavering desire to leave Lestat?

4. Why does Louis attack the interviewer?

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

6. Compare Claudia's attitude toward killing and drinking with that of Louis and Lestat.

7. Why does Louis not drink of Morgan's blood when Claudia does so?

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

9. The girl killed on stage by the vampires is offered a way to save her life. What is her option and what does Louis know would happen if she chose that option?

10. How does Claudia carry out her plan to kill Lestat?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does Armand say it was wrong that Claudia be made into a vampire? What does Claudia tell Louis on the subject as she seeks to have Madeline as her companion? What does this all have to do with the relationship between Claudia and Louis?

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

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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