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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. What happens when Khayman tries to makes friends with a trio of other vampires?
(a) He accidentally causes one to explode into flames.
(b) He mind-melds with one of the females and they become a couple.
(c) They decide to travel together to San Francisco.
(d) They tell him to go away.

2. Who made Pandora?
(a) Lestat.
(b) Marius.
(c) Azim.
(d) Enkil.

3. What is a legend?
(a) An ancient story with historic roots that takes on symbolic or moral meaning.
(b) A handsome man with a history of dangerous adventures all over the world.
(c) An old adverstising slogan for mink coats: "What becomes a legend most?"
(d) A fairy tale that doesn't end "happily ever after."

4. Who surprises Khayman by showing up at the concert?
(a) Maharet and Miriam, the ghost of Jesse's mortal mother.
(b) Baby Jenks and the survivor of the St. Louis coven house.
(c) Danielle Steele, because she lives nearby.
(d) David Talbot and another member of the Talamasca; they are looking for Jesse.

5. What happened to Jesse's parents?
(a) They time-traveled to another universe.
(b) They abandoned her at a hospital.
(c) They were killed by vampires.
(d) They died in a car crash.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Baby Jenks reveals to her mother that she was no longer a virgin, what does her mother do?

2. What is Azim's plan for dealing with the danger he feels?

3. How is the archeologist's discovery of the caves and the Legend of the Twins received in the academic world.

4. Who causes the coven house to explode when Khayman visits?

5. How does Azim feel about Marius?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do some of the vampires view their telepathic gift--the ability to read the minds of mortals and other vampires--as something of a curse?

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

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

5. Why doesn't Pandora like to fly, even though she can?

6. How does Marius feel about Akasha and Enkil?

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

8. What additional information is added by the discovery of the second set of cave paintings?

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

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

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