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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. 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) Louis threw the lamp at Lestat
(d) Claudia scattered hot coals as she grabbed the poker

2. 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) Lestat kills him
(c) He doesn't return
(d) He takes his payment and flees

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

4. What does Lestat call the little girl?
(a) Claudia
(b) Carleena
(c) Corina
(d) Candy

5. What is the play Lestat loves and that he and Louis see over and over?
(a) Peter Pan
(b) Hamlet
(c) Macbeth
(d) Frankenstein

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens the first time Louis drinks the blood of his own victim?

2. Who did Louis help Lestat kill first?

3. Why does Lestat say he can't kill his father?

4. What activity is Lestat engaged in when Louis orders him away from the plantation?

5. What does Louis say eventually occurs to him with regard to Claudia's life as a vampire?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. Louis says that to see Satan would be a relief. Why?

3. What does Claudia say about Lestat's chances of surviving the fire at their New Orleans town house?

4. What is the meaning of Claudia's statement that Louis "Let the flesh instruct the mind?"

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

6. What directions does Louis ask for as he prepares to leave the inn with Claudia? What does he pretend is the reason? What's the real reason?

7. How does Claudia go about choosing a coffin of her own? What becomes of it?

8. After they leave Lestat's body for dead, Claudia frantically goes through his things. What does she say she's looking for?

9. What is Louis's reaction when he and Lestat dispose of the overseer's body.

10. What does Louis say he feels for Babette?

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