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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. Why do the people of Mount Carmel eat their dead?
(a) There is a famine in the countryside and people are starving.
(b) So the flesh of the dead would not rot and their souls could flourish.
(c) A neighboring tribe forces them to become cannibals.
(d) They have a taste for the tender flesh of relatives.

2. What does Akasha believe will be the result of her reign?
(a) Purging fires destroy all the world's evil.
(b) She marries Lestat in a grand ceremony.
(c) Women rule all the world's countries,
(d) Peace on Earth.

3. Which of the twins usually did the talking in the early days?
(a) Both; they say everything in unison.
(b) Both are mute.
(c) Mekare.
(d) Maharet.

4. Akasha knows something about Lestat's nature. What is it?
(a) He is a compulsive overeater.
(b) He has attention deficit disorder.
(c) He is argumentative.
(d) He cannot obey anyone for very long.

5. Why does Khayman want the twins to become vampires?
(a) He needs help fighting Akasha and Enkil.
(b) Misery loves company.
(c) One is a lonely number, three is a party.
(d) He, too, is an evil spirit and wants to debauch others.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sort of creatures are Mekare, Maharet, and their mother?

2. Where do the remaining vampires gather?

3. What does the spirit Amel give to Akasha?

4. How does the group of Greek women treat Lestat when he awakens?

5. Lestat describes being "blanketed in succulent human flesh." How does he respond?

Short Essay Questions

1. When the twins fail to restore them, the King and Queen first vow to kill them but settle for plucking out Maharet's eyes and cutting out Mekare's tongue. What happens to the eyes and the tongue, and then what happens to the twins?

2. Does Lestat believe in Akasha's quest? Why or why not?

3. Why does Marius feel so strongly about seeing Armand--whom he calls Amadeo--again?

4. What weapon with sentimental meaning does Akasha show Lestat in his father's castle?

5. What is Marius' reaction to the gathering of vampires which he has joined?

6. Akasha wants 99 percent of male humans killed, reasoning that a world ruled by women will be more peaceful than the world under the rule of men. What is the irony of that plan?

7. Maharet has searched for her twin for 6,000 years. What clues or proof has she had over that time that Mekare is alive?

8. Enkil and Akasha are frightened and ashamed of what they have become, even though they have no name for it. What has come over them and how do they act?

9. Who was keeping Akasha still on the throne and what does she do to that person?

10. Lestat is very reluctant to cooperate with Akasha's plan and tries to talk her out of it. What is it about him that attracts her, even though she can't control him?

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