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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 Marahet say about Akasha?
(a) "She is the Queen of the Damned and the Damned can't live without her."
(b) "We are damned if we do kill her and damned if we don't."
(c) "My loyalty is to the Queen and the rest of you are damned."
(d) "She has a vicious temper, but she loves us all as her children."

2. What does Akasha believe will be the result of her reign?
(a) Peace on Earth.
(b) She marries Lestat in a grand ceremony.
(c) Purging fires destroy all the world's evil.
(d) Women rule all the world's countries,

3. What does the spirit Amel give to Akasha?
(a) A necklace she has lost as a child.
(b) A cape which would make her invisible.
(c) A blouse woven from the fine hair of infants.
(d) A gold bracelet that belonged to her mother.

4. What is the reaction of Akasha and Enkil to their transformation?
(a) Indifference.
(b) Lust.
(c) Pleasure.
(d) Shame.

5. How does Enkil come to rule his kingdom?
(a) The people of the Nile Valley anoint him king while he is still a child.
(b) Like Oedipus, he slays his father and marries his mother.
(c) He is chosen by lottery, as is the custom of his people.
(d) His mother dies and there are no female realtives to ascend to the throne.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the twins usually did the talking in the early days?

2. Where had Lestat been happiest?

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

4. Why is Marius so anxious to see Armando?

5. What does Marius suggest the vampires do when they learn of the massacres committed by Akasha and Lestat?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Maharet say about Akasha's dream?

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

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

5. 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?

6. What is Marius' reaction to the gathering of vampires which he has joined?

7. What, to Maharet, is more important than her life, even more important than finding her twin?

8. 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?

9. 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?

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

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