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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. How does Harker react to Dracula's physical touch?

2. Where does Lucy live when Mina goes to visit her?

3. What does Dracula force Harker to say in the letter he must write during his captivity?

4. Whose marriage proposal does Lucy accept?

5. What kind of animals surrounds Harker's coach when he is being taken to meet Count Dracula for the first time?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where is Lucy and Mina's favorite place to sit?

2. How does Harker react to the innkeeper's wife's gift for protection when she learns he is on a journey to see Count Dracula?

3. What happens to Lucy's mother after Van Helsing's telegram goes astray?

4. What makes Harker certain that Dracula is going to kill him during his captivity?

5. Which two characters are under Dracula's mind control at the time that Harker is committed to the Budapest hospital?

6. What major physical changes does Lucy go through right before her death?

7. Who is Mr. Swales?

8. What two classic traits of a vampire does Dracula demonstrate in Chapter 4 (when Harker first begins to try to escape from Dracula's castle)?

9. What causes Renfield's outbursts as Lucy lies dying?

10. Why doesn't Harker want Dracula to know that he is afraid of him while being held captive?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Complete a critical examination of the institution of marriage in the novel, making sure to address at least two ways that the marriages within the novel support the stereotypes and social expectations of the time and two ways that the marriages within the novel go against the stereotypes of the times.

Essay Topic 2

"Dracula" is very much a product of the time it was written. Choose three key elements of the novel and discuss how they are specific of their time and would, consequently, not work if the novel were written today.

Essay Topic 3

Dracula is supposedly based on a real historical figure named Vlad the Impaler. Find three similarities between this historical figure and the literary character and explain how and when they appear in the novel.

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