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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. After leaving the hotel, where do Louis and Lestat live?
(a) In a secure courtyard
(b) In a town house on the Rue Royale
(c) In a tailor's shop
(d) They return to Pointe du Lac

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

3. Where does Lestat take the little girl once they leave the hospital?
(a) To their hotel room
(b) To Paris
(c) To Pointe du Lac
(d) To her house

4. What is the reaction of the priest when Louis goes into the confessional and claims to be immortal?
(a) He believes Louis to be honestly troubled and urges him to go on
(b) He protects himself with a cross, forcing Louis from the church
(c) He is angry, accusing Louis of making a joke and asking if he has no fear of God
(d) He threatens to turn Louis in to the authorities

5. What present does Claudia bring to Lestat?
(a) Wine
(b) A woman of the evening
(c) A new casket
(d) Two young boys

Short Answer Questions

1. What plan does Claudia concoct in order that she and Louis escape Lestat?

2. How old was Claudia when she came to live with Louis and Lestat?

3. What happens to keep Louis from killing the girl?

4. Why does Louis kill one of the women in their hotel room?

5. What does Lestat do with the child's mother when he finds Louis with the little girl?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lestat say about a vampire who is starving?

2. Why is it that Claudia's remains were nothing but ashes while Madeline's remains were more substantial?

3. Describe the sounds Louis described as Lestat took his life.

4. Louis says that Lestat would have loved a young man such as the interviewer. Why?

5. What news does Armand offer about Claudia's chances of survival when he releases Louis from the coffin at the theater? Why does he say this?

6. Who is it that Louis feeds on during that night they are scheduled to leave for Europe? What conversation passes between Louis and his victim?

7. The girl killed on stage by the vampires is offered a way to save her life. What is her option and what does Louis know would happen if she chose that option?

8. Why does Louis say that closing the coffin for his daily period of sleep continues to be worrisome even after he gets past his dread of the coffin?

9. Compare Claudia's attitude toward killing and drinking with that of Louis and Lestat.

10. Why does Louis not drink of Morgan's blood when Claudia does so?

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