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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the archeologist discover?
2. What happens to vampires as they age?
3. What are the Himalayas?
4. What is the Great Family?
5. Where is Pandora headed when the reader first sees her?
Short Essay Questions
1. Did Jesse feel more loyalty to the Great Family or to Talamasca?
2. What happens in Lestat's music video, which Marius sees in a television store window?
3. What does Jesse notice about Maharet and Mael that at first leads her to think of them as "different" and eventually to realize that they are vampires?
4. How are Khayman and Akasha related in terms of age and power? What do these factors mean in terms of their modern-day relationship?
5. What is one of the primary purposes of the Prologue of The Queen of the Damned? Why is that important?
6. What does the first paragraph in Part 1, Chapter 3, The Goddess Pandora tell you about Pandora? Does it give you a feeling of Pandora's attitude as well as her appearance?
7. Why does Baby Jenks dislike her mother?
8. 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?
9. Does Pandora enjoy drinking the blood of Azim's followers?
10. What seems to be happening in the first cave paintings of the twins?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is Lestat's relationship with Claudia? What is the significance of the doll that he gives her each year for her birthday and how does Claudia react to the gift? Why does Jesse have such a strong reaction to the doll she finds at Lestat's house?
Essay Topic 2
At the conference between Akasha and the other vampires, she argues first with Marius and then with Mahareta. What is the thrust of Marius' argument and how does Akasha refute what he says? How does Mahareta frame her opposition to Akasha's plan? What are the most persuasive points that Marius and Mahareta make?
Essay Topic 3
Throughout The Queen of the Damned, vampires and some mortals struggle with the concepts of right and wrong, mortality and immortality, spirit and flesh, belief and non-belief. In your opinion, what is the outcome? Use examples to illustrate your thesis.
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