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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Louis help Lestat kill first?

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

3. What does Lestat tell the doctor in order to have the little girl released to him?

4. What does Lestate say will happen to Louis if he is outdoors in the sunshine?

5. What change does Claudia prompt in Louis?

Short Essay Questions

1. What time of day does Louis set fire to the theater and why?

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

3. Why does Armand want so desperately to be with Louis?

4. What does Lestat use to convince Louis to remain with him?

5. On the subject of the purchase of a carriage used to travel the countryside of Europe, Louis says that Claudia exhibited the traits of both he and Lestat. What traits does he say she got from each of the two men?

6. What is it that Louis wonders about Lestat's body as it lies in the swamp.

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

8. What does Louis say he feels for Babette?

9. What theories are offered for the reason the vampires Louis and Claudia encounter are all mindless corpses?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the details of Louis's first kill. What changes over the coming years? Compare that to how Lestat's attitude about killing changes over the years.

Essay Topic 2

Why does Claudia need Madeline? Compare the way Claudia came to be a vampire to the events that led to Madeline's transformation.

Essay Topic 3

What is it that makes people want immortality? Did Louis discover that it was worth the cost? Did anyone?

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