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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) A repeat of his old Lelio character.
(c) Bites the head off a rat.
(d) Shows his fangs and drinks blood.

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

3. Who is the one person who is not happy to hear of Lestat's good fortune?
(a) Magnus.
(b) Nicolas.
(c) Gabrielle.
(d) M. de Lioncourt.

4. What is Lestat's family situation just before the French Revolution?
(a) Feudal servants.
(b) Wealthy land barons.
(c) Middle class merchants.
(d) Impoverished nobility.

5. What happens to Lestat during the night in the apartment he shares with Nicolas?
(a) He has terrible nightmares.
(b) He begins to sleepwalk.
(c) He is snatched through the window.
(d) He becomes deathly ill.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to cause Gabrielle to go into hysterics?

2. What happened to him as a boy?

3. Why does Lestat dictate his letters to Gabrielle in Italian?

4. Why does Lestat meet up with some of Armand's coven of vampires?

5. What does Lestat begin to sense?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why can Lestat not follow through with his plan to have Nicki take Gabrielle to Italy?

3. Describe how Lestat gets into the kill.

4. How is the bond between Lestat and Nicki eventually broken?

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

6. Where do Gabrielle and Lestat go in Paris to escape the vampires who continue to chase them?

7. Confronting Lestat, what is Armand's main objection to Lestat?

8. Describe the rapture of Lestat as he becomes a vampire.

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

10. How does Gabrielle react to becoming a vampire?

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