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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. What do Nicolas and Lestat propose to do to spite their families?
(a) Live together in the village.
(b) Write a novel.
(c) Burn the crops.
(d) Run away to Paris.

2. What does Lestat want to do with Nicki?
(a) Teach him how to live with a vampire.
(b) Send him abroad where he will be safe.
(c) Send him to Russia to study music.
(d) Make him a vampire.

3. What does Magnus show Lestat in the tower?
(a) A trap used for catching humans.
(b) A history of his life.
(c) A secret escape passage.
(d) A vast treasure of gold and jewels.

4. Why does Lestat dictate his letters to Gabrielle in Italian?
(a) So she will think he is in school.
(b) So only she will know what is in them.
(c) So his father and brothers can read them, too.
(d) So Nicolas will be impressed.

5. For whom does Lestat purchase gifts?
(a) The poor people of Paris.
(b) Nicolas and his brothers.
(c) His father and Nicolas' father.
(d) The people at the theater.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Lestat and Gabrielle know about the vampires and Nicki?

2. Where do Lestat and Armand go after the ball?

3. Why is Gabrielle afraid of the tower after the other vampires come around?

4. Who made Armand a vampire?

5. What does Armand agree not to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the significance of Lestat's finding Armand at the mortals' ball.

2. What are the reactions to Lestat's sudden ascent into wealth?

3. Describe how Lestat and Nicolas become friends.

4. What is the circumstance that changes Armand into a vampire?

5. What is Lestat's argument against Armand's vampire ways?

6. Why can Lestat not follow through with his plan to have Nicki take Gabrielle to Italy?

7. What is the circumstance when Lestat and Gabrielle awaken in a crypt inside a church?

8. What kind of person is the lawyer Roget to whom Lestat trusts his business?

9. What is the event that lets Nicolas know that Lestat has changed?

10. Describe the rapture of Lestat as he becomes a vampire.

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