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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 the young woman in Part One, Chapter 8 admit to Paul?

2. What single word is on the banner held by the dragon in the dragon book?

3. Who does the narrator realize she is staring at toward the end of Part One, Chapter 4?

4. What does Rossi think of Helen?

5. Where do the narrator and her father travel in Part One, Chapter 7?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain what happened at the monastery in France that Paul and the narrator visited.

2. What is significant about the packet of letters the narrator finds in her father’s room in Amsterdam?

3. Explain what happened to Hedges when he was attacked in Part One, Chapter 12.

4. Why does Rossi go to America? What does he learn there?

5. What does Paul think of the monastery at Les Pyrenees-Orientales? How do you know?

6. How does Rossi react to Hedges’s death? What does this reveal about Rossi?

7. What is mysterious about the green book that is in Paul’s possession, according to Part One, Chapter 2?

8. Why are Rossi’s letters addressed to “my dear and unfortunate successor”?

9. Why does the narrator read the fictional account of Dracula in Bram Stoker’s novel?

10. Who is Barley? What is his role in the story?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain Freytag’s Pyramid. Identify the elements of Freytag’s Pyramid and give at least one example of each element from the story.

Essay Topic 2

Define point of view. Identify each type of point of view and its characteristics. What is the point of view of The Historian? How do you know?

Essay Topic 3

Define epilogues. How are they used in literature? Explain how the epilogue of The Historian impacts the story. What is revealed in the Epilogue? How would the story be different without it?

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