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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. According to Part Two, Chapter 25, what is the next part of Paul’s story?

2. Where does the narrator like to spend time when she is not in school?

3. What religious building to the narrator and her father tour in France in Part One, Chapter 10?

4. Where does Paul take the narrator in Part One, Chapter 22?

5. What is the printing date Howard Martin gives the dragon book when he analyzes it?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Paul know the woman he encountered in the library in Part One, Chapter 8 is also researching Dracula?

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

4. Why was Hedges attacked?

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

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

7. Explain how Paul began to research Dracula.

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

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

10. Explain who the narrator is in The Historian. What story is she telling?

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

Compare and contrast Paul’s disappearance with Rossi’s disappearance. How are they alike? How are they different? How does each disappearance impact the narrator?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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