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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 is Talamasca?
(a) An Italian restaurant in London with a back bar for vampires.
(b) A secret organization dedicated to investigating supernatural and paranormal incidents.
(c) A secret society of vampires.
(d) The code name for gaining entry in the Sonoma compound.

2. What is Maharet's family role?
(a) Maharet is the family's consigliere.
(b) Maheret is the family's bookkeeper.
(c) Maharet is the family's flighty maiden aunt.
(d) Maharet is the family's historian.

3. What does Akasha do when she awakens?
(a) Hacks into the city's computer system as a demonstration of power.
(b) Kills her husband, by turning him to glass.
(c) Vows to establish unity between Lestat and his critics.
(d) Stretches, to get the kinks out after 6,000 years of not moving a muscle.

4. Which of these skills are typical of vampires?
(a) The abilty to read minds and to fly.
(b) The ability to fly and to fade into small spaces.
(c) The abilty to laugh in a scary way and to crack mirrors with thought waves.
(d) The ability to send out mental signals that disrupt computers.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Daniel have to do to avoid being killed by Armand?

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

3. What color is Jesse's hair?

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

5. What does Pandora remember most vividly about feeding on a human's blood?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was one of the most fascinating aspects of Maharet's house for Jesse?

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

3. What has Marius done to entertain Akasha and Enkil over the centuries?

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

6. Why is Baby Jenks feeling disturbed?

7. Why is Pandora so worried about Marius?

8. How did Baby Jenks become a vampire?

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

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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