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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 onstage at the theater?
(a) A performance that frightens the audience.
(b) Shows his fangs and drinks blood.
(c) A repeat of his old Lelio character.
(d) Bites the head off a rat.

2. What happens as the vampire begins to drain Lestat's blood?
(a) He feels himself dying.
(b) He has dreamlike images.
(c) He faints from fright.
(d) He tries to fight the vampire off.

3. Why does Gabrielle give gold to Lestat?
(a) So he will stay home and not go to Paris.
(b) So he can buy her things in Paris.
(c) So he will go to Paris with Nicolas.
(d) So he can buy her new books to read.

4. Why does Lestat meet up with some of Armand's coven of vampires?
(a) They want to become actors.
(b) Armand has killed many of them.
(c) They want to see Gabrielle.
(d) They are looking for Armand.

5. How does Magnus depart?
(a) He immolates himself in the fire.
(b) He thrusts a silver blade through his heart.
(c) He walks out of the tower into the sunlight.
(d) He flies out of the window.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nicki do when he senses the presence of Lestat?

2. What does Lestat do with Magnus' ashes?

3. How does Lestat recognize it was a mistake to change Nicki?

4. What does Armand agree not to do?

5. How is Lestat alerted to the rising sun?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the ability Armand has to absorb a great deal of information quickly.

2. In what way is Nicolas more philosophically deep than Lestat?

3. How does Lestat immediately begin adjusting to being a vampire?

4. What kind of person is the lawyer Roget to whom Lestat trusts his business?

5. What is the circumstance when Lestat and Gabrielle awaken in a crypt inside a church?

6. Explain the length of time involved in the novel about Lestat.

7. How does Armand's story affect Lestat and Gabrielle differently?

8. What is Nicki's idea about the repertoire of the theater now called Theater of the Vampires?

9. What is Lestat's argument against Armand's vampire ways?

10. What is the dependence factor Lestat feels toward Magnus as he learns the old vampire is about to destroy himself?

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