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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is it important that Akasha and Enkil not be destroyed?
(a) Their deaths would create smog lethal to anyone who breathed it.
(b) If both of them are destroyed, all other vampires will also cease to exist.
(c) They are the George and Martha Washington of vampires.
(d) They are a constant source of valuable blood.

2. What are The Vampire Chronicles?
(a) The saga of modern-day vampires fighting to save the human race.
(b) The on-going exploits at a school for dentistry.
(c) A band that got its start at Six Flags.
(d) The history of giants of the newspaper industry.

3. How does Marius communicate as he falls into a crevasse?
(a) By meditating himself into an out-of-body experience.
(b) With a blood-curdling scream that reaches distant vampires.
(c) On an iPhone, calling 911.
(d) Telepathically, with a mental plea for help.

4. What is the Great Family?
(a) The Great Family is a reality television show of the 1960s.
(b) The Great Family is the ideal human family.
(c) The Great Family consists of the original five vampires.
(d) The Great Family consists of all the human descendants of the First Brood.

5. What is the clue that the archeologist scrawls on a piece of paper as he dies?
(a) "Twins ate their mother's heart."
(b) "In the jungles--walking."
(c) "Beware the blood of a red-haired woman."
(d) "Rubies are buried beneath the cave paintings."

6. How does Daniel get involved in the vampire world?
(a) He stumbles into the wrong San Francisco bar by mistake.
(b) He buys a house haunted by vampires in New Orleans.
(c) He interviewes the vampire Louis.
(d) He drinks blood left in the office refrigerator, thinking it is V8.

7. Why does Maharet decide, despite her earlier reluctance, to make Jesse into one of the undead?
(a) She realizes she is going to need all the allies she could get in the coming crisis.
(b) She makes her undead out of anger that Jesse has disobeyed her and gone to the concert.
(c) Because Jesse is so badly injured, she is going to die.
(d) She has taken some bad acid at the concert and isn't thinking straight.

8. As Jesse is dying, what vision does she see?
(a) She sees Miriam fighting with the vampire who attacked her.
(b) She sees a small, marble-like woman floating in the clouds, laughing.
(c) The image of a cackling old woman on a bicycle, pedaling madly with a tiny dog in the bike basket.
(d) That she is walking through a jungle, brushing aside vines to get to the bank of the river.

9. What is an acolyte?
(a) An acolyte is a spirit that feeds off vampires.
(b) An acolyte is a form of blood serum vampires can drink when there are no fresh humans available.
(c) An acolyte is a follower of a leader or belief system.
(d) An acolyte is a small candle burned in dark passages.

10. What do Armand and Daniel do after becoming a couple?
(a) Settle in Paris and open an exclusive cooking school.
(b) Move to New York and go broke when the stock market crashes.
(c) Take a world cruise, on which Armand drinks the blood of rich women and Daniel takes their money.
(d) Get rich and buy a private island offshore from Miami.

11. What is Mael's theory regarding the Queen's motives in killing most vampires but allowing some to live?
(a) He speculates that the survivors have been immunized against fire, and the Queen is unable to kill them.
(b) He believes she spares only those loved by Lestat.
(c) He thinks she plans to restock the vampire community with those of the purest blood.
(d) He believes those spared are being saved to be sacrificed later in a beach ritual south of San Francisco.

12. What happens when Akasha and Khayman see one another?
(a) They attempt to kill one another telepathically, but cannot.
(b) They decide to travel together by train to San Francisco.
(c) They ignore one another, each hoping the other will disappear.
(d) They realize they are attracted to one another, and join forces.

13. What does Jesse find in New Orleans?
(a) A very good Cajun restaurant.
(b) Her great-grandmother's doll.
(c) Lestat's house.
(d) The decoder for the special language spoken by the first vampires.

14. What effect does drinking the blood of Marius have on Pandora?
(a) It puts a glow in her cheeks.
(b) It makes her sick to her stomach.
(c) It gives her a momentary surge of power.
(d) It makes her able to hear Marius' warning directly.

15. In what period of time does the "Queen of the Damned" take place?
(a) Ten days.
(b) Two hours.
(c) A month.
(d) A decade.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Baby Jenks seen while searching for the Fang Gang?

2. In the beginning of Part 1, Chapter 5, what does Khayman know about his past?

3. What is Jesse's odd trait while growing up?

4. Does Jesse recognize right away that Maharet and Mael are vampires?

5. What is the message Lestat telepathically passes to Jesse when he kisses her during the concert?

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