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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Louis and Claudia discover has happened to the young musician once they see him just before midnight?
(a) He's become a vampire
(b) He's holding up Lestat
(c) He's dressed in a cape
(d) He's near death

2. What does Claudia tell Lestat as she presents him with his gift?
(a) That she wants her freedom in return
(b) That she wants him to share with Louis
(c) That she wants him to be well fed
(d) That she wants to stop the arguing

3. How does Louis know Lestat is alive just prior to their midnight departure time?
(a) Lestat calls out to him
(b) Lestat beckons from the street below
(c) Claudia sees him
(d) Louis hears his step on the stairs

4. What does Babette hit Louis with as he is preparing to leave the plantation?
(a) A shovel
(b) A cross
(c) A wine bottle
(d) A lantern

5. How does the house come to be on fire as Louis and Lestat fight?
(a) Lestat set the fire in order to get into the house
(b) Lestat threw the lamp at Louis
(c) Claudia scattered hot coals as she grabbed the poker
(d) Louis threw the lamp at Lestat

6. What excuse does Louis offer to avoid his sister's wedding?
(a) That he is away on business
(b) That he must tend Lestat's father
(c) That he has a malarial chill
(d) That he doesn't like her husband

7. When Lestat realizes that there was something wrong with him, what does Claudia tell him about the blood of the boy she'd given him as a gift?
(a) That it was tainted with absinthe and laudanum
(b) That there was nothing wrong
(c) That the boy was sick with the plague
(d) That Louis persuaded her

8. What happens to the man who secures the room for Lestat and Louis once they arrive in New Orleans from the Freniere plantation?
(a) Louis kills him
(b) He takes his payment and flees
(c) Lestat kills him
(d) He doesn't return

9. What does Claudia hit Lestat with as Lestat and Louis fight on the night Louis and Claudia plan to leave for Europe?
(a) A lamp
(b) A hammer
(c) A poker
(d) A book

10. What is Claudia's reaction when Louis tells her the story of how she became a vampire?
(a) That she hates Louis for trying to kill her and loves Lestat for saving her life
(b) That she loves both Louis and Lestat
(c) That she hates both Louis and Lestat
(d) That she loves Louis for his pity on her and hates Lestat

11. What activity is Lestat engaged in when Louis orders him away from the plantation?
(a) Playing solitaire
(b) Feeding his father
(c) Building a palace of cards
(d) Killing another slave

12. What does Lestat say is true of his relationship with Louis?
(a) That Louis will never be the killer a vampire must be
(b) That Louis is physically superior but mentally inferior to Lestat
(c) That they are partners
(d) That Louis is his slave

13. How does Paul die?
(a) Lestat drains him of his blood
(b) He hangs himself
(c) He is shot
(d) He falls down some steps

14. How does Louis intend to live following the burning of Point du Lac?
(a) He and Lestat can steal what they need
(b) He has investments in many different names
(c) He has no plan
(d) He plans to take the Frenier plantation

15. What happens to keep Louis from killing the girl?
(a) He passes out
(b) Her heart momentarily stops beating
(c) He believes she's died but she hasn't
(d) Lestat stops him

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Louis insist Lestat do before he agrees to kill Lestat's father?

2. Why does the interviewer say he wants to hear the rest of Louis's story?

3. How does Lestat teach Louis it's possible to travel by ship?

4. What effect does Louis say a cross has on a vampire?

5. When Claudia suggests that they people the world with vampires, what does Lestat say?

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