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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. Does Jesse recognize right away that Maharet and Mael are vampires?
2. How does Daniel get involved in the vampire world?
3. How does Azim feel about his life as a vampire?
4. In what period of time does the "Queen of the Damned" take place?
5. Lestat's concert took place in what city?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why is Pandora so worried about Marius?
2. What additional information is added by the discovery of the second set of cave paintings?
3. What is Jesse's first reaction when David Talbot asked her to investigate the veracity of Interview with the Vampire?
4. In Chapter 4, The Story of Daniel, what point does the author make about how many vampires decide to take a particular action that doesn't seem to make sense?
5. What, if any, clues are there in Part 1, Chapter 1, The Legend of the Twins that links the Legend of the Twins to the world of the vampires?
6. How are Khayman and Akasha related in terms of age and power? What do these factors mean in terms of their modern-day relationship?
7. Why does Khayman hate Akasha?
8. Mael is at Lestat's concert. What is he doing there and who sent him? Who volunteers to be his ally?
9. Does the archeologist's daughter really understand what her father has spent his life studying?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Mahareta shows her fellow surviving vampires a family tree of the mortal descendants of her daughter Miriam. She says that protecting that family as it grew and spread gave her a reason for continuing. The other vampires are moved and acknowledge the importance of these mortals. What is it about the family that is important to the vampires? What are they willing to sacrifice in order to protect that family and other mortal families? How do the feelings expressed by the vampires fit into the themes of the book?
Essay Topic 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
Both Pandora and Khayman are portrayed as longing to be human, and Khayman is described as almost unbearably lonely during the concert events. Analyze their characters, the relationship between the two (if any), and the reasons why the author put these two characters together.
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