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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 does Lestat do inadvertently to his watch and purposefully to a mirror?
(a) Breaks them with the power of his mind.
(b) Gives them to a beggar below the balcony of his room.
(c) Smashes them with his boot.
(d) Makes them burst into flames with the power of his mind.

2. What is the only solution the twins can offer Akasha and Enkil to end their torment?
(a) Commit suicide and deprive the evil spirit of their bodies.
(b) Walk seven times around a fire, while the witches chant and spirits pray.
(c) Entice the spirit out with the sacrifice of 49 tender children.
(d) Seek the advice of a shaman to be found in the jungles of Peru.

3. What effect does Maharet's red hair have on Marius' mood?
(a) He has the urge to wrap it around him like a cloak.
(b) It makes him think of his mother.
(c) He is entranced by it momentarily and feels joyful again.
(d) He is disgusted and thinks she should update the style.

4. What skill does Lestat gain when he is with Akasha?
(a) The ability to summon demons.
(b) The power to create massive storms.
(c) The ability to fly.
(d) The power to throw lightning bolts.

5. How can the King and Queen reduce their extreme thirst for blood?
(a) By spiking the blood with vodka.
(b) By eating clay found on the banks of the Nile.
(c) By making other vampires--to dilute the thirst among them.
(d) By sleeping in an iron casket.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Lestat's childhood ambition?

2. The idea that Mekare is alive and sending the dreams causes what emotions among the older vampires?

3. What does Marius notices that every surviving vampire has in common?

4. Which part of their mother's body does Mekare and Mahareta believe is most significant?

5. Gabrielle wants to destroy Akasha for taking her son, Lestat. What does she ask Maharet about that plan?

Short Essay Questions

1. Lestat is very reluctant to cooperate with Akasha's plan and tries to talk her out of it. What is it about him that attracts her, even though she can't control him?

2. Does Lestat believe in Akasha's quest? Why or why not?

3. Maharet has searched for her twin for 6,000 years. What clues or proof has she had over that time that Mekare is alive?

4. Once the twins are back in their cell, what does Amel tell them about himself?

5. Akasha wants 99 percent of male humans killed, reasoning that a world ruled by women will be more peaceful than the world under the rule of men. What is the irony of that plan?

6. Was Akasha unconscious and unaware during her years of dormancy?

7. What has Jesse seen that adds to the vampires' belief Mekare is sending the dreams?

8. Akasha tells Lestat why she loves him. What does she say?

9. When the twins fail to restore them, the King and Queen first vow to kill them but settle for plucking out Maharet's eyes and cutting out Mekare's tongue. What happens to the eyes and the tongue, and then what happens to the twins?

10. Enkil and Akasha are frightened and ashamed of what they have become, even though they have no name for it. What has come over them and how do they act?

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