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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. What does Lestat call the little girl?

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

3. How does Louis intend to live following the burning of Point du Lac?

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

5. What excuse does Louis offer to avoid his sister's wedding?

Short Essay Questions

1. What adorns the walls of the huge ballroom below the theater?

2. What strange "illness" strikes the ship on which Claudia and Louis travel to Europe?

3. One of the vampire women says the men who created the paintings on the ballroom walls are evil. Why does she say this is true?

4. Why does Louis say Lestat makes Claudia into a vampire?

5. What is the brief debate between Claudia and Louis regarding the power of fire?

6. Louis says that he preferred taking the life of an animal over that of a human. What reason does he give?

7. 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?

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

9. Why does Lestat want Louis to become a vampire?

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Louis says that his transformation to a vampire and the days of learning what was necessary could have been different with a different teacher. What things could Lestate have done differently to make the transformation better for Louis?

Essay Topic 2

List at least three myths related to vampires that Louis dispels during the interview and describe how those came to be accepted as "fact."

Essay Topic 3

Describe how Claudia came to realize that she had been cheated by being made into a vampire at such a young age. Compare her reactions as she fully understands the situation to Armand's statement that a child should never be made into a vampire.

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