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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old are the cave paintings that tell the Legend of the Twins?
(a) 12,000 years.
(b) They are fakes, created in 1966.
(c) No one knows for sure.
(d) At least 6,000 years.

2. When do other vampires plan to kill Lestat?
(a) During final episode of "Dancing With the Stars."
(b) The night of his Halloween concert.
(c) High noon.
(d) Christmas Eve, at midnight services.

3. What was Lestat's ambition as a young man?
(a) To attend medical school in Berlin.
(b) To become an actor in Paris.
(c) To write music with Bach as his teacher.
(d) To study art at the Sorbonne.

4. What color is Jesse's hair?
(a) Mousey.
(b) Blonde.
(c) Grey.
(d) Red.

5. How does Pandora know that Marius is in danger?
(a) There was a front-page article in the Wall Street Journal.
(b) She's dreamed about him falling into the ice.
(c) She's heard him "broadcasting" the danger alert, telepathically.
(d) She has a vague sense. There's something in the air she can't explain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is it important that Akasha and Enkil not be destroyed?

2. How does Marius communicate as he falls into a crevasse?

3. Who summarizes the two previous books in the prologue?

4. Identify one of Armand's major fears.

5. What is Maharet's family role?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Lestat and what was his role in the second book of the Chronicles of the Vampire?

2. When Khayman, before the concert, gets up to move closer to another vampire, the narrator says: "He would be near to one of these two...That's what he had wanted in Athens...To be near another like himself. To speak, to touch...something." What theme does this passage illustrate?

3. What happens in Lestat's music video, which Marius sees in a television store window?

4. Is there any reason or purpose to the fact that Khayman has regained consciousness at the same time as Akasha? What is it? Is there a literary term that could be applied to Khayman's questioning?

5. How does Khayman feel when he wakes up (besides hungry)? How does this feeling tie in with one of the themes of the book?

6. What, if any, clues are there in Part 1, Chapter 1, The Legend of the Twins that links the Legend of the Twins to the world of the vampires?

7. Mael is at Lestat's concert. What is he doing there and who sent him? Who volunteers to be his ally?

8. What seems to be happening in the first cave paintings of the twins?

9. What is Jesse's first reaction when David Talbot asked her to investigate the veracity of Interview with the Vampire?

10. How are Khayman and Akasha related in terms of age and power? What do these factors mean in terms of their modern-day relationship?

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