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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 Claudia say will be the outcome if Louis interferes with her plan to kill Lestat?

2. After leaving the hotel, where do Louis and Lestat live?

3. What present does Claudia bring to Lestat?

4. What does Lestat do to the little girl after Louis almost kills her by drinking her blood?

5. How does the house come to be on fire as Louis and Lestat fight?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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?

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

What is it that makes people want immortality? Did Louis discover that it was worth the cost? Did anyone?

Essay Topic 2

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

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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