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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 discover when he tries to leave the following night?

2. How does Lestat teach Louis it's possible to travel by ship?

3. What does Lestat say is true of his relationship with Louis?

4. What advice does Louis give Babette when she is facing the scorn of the community for taking the reins of her family's plantation?

5. What effect does Louis say a cross has on a vampire?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Lestat's condition when Louis again finds him? What does he ask Louis to do?

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

3. What does Claudia do that brings suspicion on the trio?

4. Why does Louis say Lestat makes Claudia into a vampire?

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

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

7. What adorns the walls of the huge ballroom below the theater?

8. Louis says that Lestat would have loved a young man such as the interviewer. Why?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Louis says that on the day he created the transformation of Madeline, the last vestige of humanity died within him. Explain this statement.

Essay Topic 2

List at least three myths related to vampires that Louis dispels during the interview and describe how those came to be accepted as "fact."

Essay Topic 3

In Paris, Louis tells Claudia that he is "the sorcerer's apprentice only!" What is meant by this? How does his feeling on this point impact his entire life as a vampire?

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