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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. Where does Rossi go to have the dragon book analyzed?
(a) Amsterdam.
(b) London.
(c) America.
(d) Istanbul.
2. What book does the narrator find an old translation of in her father’s library one evening?
(a) The Kama Sutra.
(b) Edgar Allan Poe’s “Murders in the Rue Morgue.”
(c) Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
(d) Dante’s Inferno.
3. What is the salutation in Rossi’s letter in Part One, Chapter 8?
(a) My dear and unfortunate successor.
(b) Dear Paul.
(c) My dear Master.
(d) To those who come next.
4. What other two items does the narrator find in her father’s library with the book translation?
(a) A portfolio of documents and research.
(b) A small, locked chest.
(c) An older-looking volume and a packet of yellowing papers.
(d) A handwritten book with an author named “V.”
5. Who does Paul encounter in the library on his first day of research into finding Dracula’s tomb?
(a) Professor Rossi.
(b) A grubby male librarian with puncture marks on his neck.
(c) An American professor who is also looking for Dracula’s tomb.
(d) A tall, dark man.
Short Answer Questions
1. What type of business are the narrator and Paul at when Paul continues his story about the dragon book in Part One, Chapter 3?
2. What is the text of the dragon book?
3. Where is the narrator at the beginning of Part Two, Chapter 25?
4. What was Paul’s career when the dragon book came into his possession?
5. According to Part One, Chapter 5, what did Rossi think of Paul?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain Johan Binnerts’s importance to the narrator, according to Part One, Chapter 5.
2. Explain who the narrator is in The Historian. What story is she telling?
3. Why does Rossi go to America? What does he learn there?
4. Who is Barley? What is his role in the story?
5. Explain what prompts Paul to tell the narrator about events from his past.
6. Explain how Paul began to research Dracula.
7. Describe the narrator at the beginning of the events of the story.
8. Explain what happened to Hedges when he was attacked in Part One, Chapter 12.
9. What is mysterious about the green book that is in Paul’s possession, according to Part One, Chapter 2?
10. How does Rossi react to Hedges’s death? What does this reveal about Rossi?
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