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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 effect does Maharet's red hair have on Marius' mood?
2. What is the only solution the twins can offer Akasha and Enkil to end their torment?
3. What finally breaks Khayman's spirit?
4. Where do the remaining vampires gather?
5. What does Marius wish he had done when he had the chance?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why is Akasha so intent on questioning the twins and, through them, the spirits? What does she hopes to gain?
2. How does Lestat feel about the events that led to him becoming a vampire?
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. What, to Maharet, is more important than her life, even more important than finding her twin?
5. 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?
6. Khayman is the longtime servant of the King and Queen. He also has a soft spot for the twins. To whom is he the most loyal during the early period of the vampires?
7. Does Lestat believe in Akasha's quest? Why or why not?
8. 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?
9. Who was keeping Akasha still on the throne and what does she do to that person?
10. Why does Marius feel so strongly about seeing Armand--whom he calls Amadeo--again?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
When Marius learns that the dreams are the products of Mekare's thoughts and obsessions, he is stunned and considers the situation worse than he had imagined. Why? What does he surmise about Mekare's reawakening?
Essay Topic 2
There are several sexually charged and/or committed relationships between vampires in The Queen of the Damned. The sexual aspect or symbolism is particularly strong when a mortal is made into a vampire. What purpose do those scenes or images serve in developing the theme or themes of the book? Use examples to support your argument.
Essay Topic 3
The author uses Baby Jenks as a contradictory character, one who experiences death--both her own and that of others--several times in this short chapter. What are her experiences of death and how are they relevant to the on-going story of the vampires?
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