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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 urgent message does an attendant bring to Seward after he speaks to Renfield about Renfield's changing moods?
(a) That Renfield has escaped from his room, but not the asylum.
(b) That Renfield is now only speaking in French.
(c) That Renfield has been attacked by a mob of masked men.
(d) That Renfield has met with a serious accident.

2. What do Holmwood and Morris think about Renfield after they meet him?
(a) That he should be provided with better food.
(b) That he should be given a private room.
(c) That he should be let loose as a way of tracking Dracula.
(d) That he could be released.

3. How does Van Helsing open Lucy's tomb?
(a) By holding a crucifix up in front of it.
(b) With a key.
(c) With a sledgehammer.
(d) With a secret spell.

4. Despite his injuries, what does Renfield manage to tell the vampire-hunting team about Mina?
(a) That she was with Dracula.
(b) That she is dead.
(c) That she fled in the night.
(d) That she has been kidnapped.

5. What does Mina reveal under hypnosis about the whereabouts of Dracula's ship?
(a) It has been delayed at port of entry.
(b) That it is late but still at sea.
(c) That it has sunk.
(d) That it has been taken over by pirates.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Renfield's opinion of Mina?

2. When Van Helsing, Seward, Holmwood, and Morris finally encounter Lucy near her tomb, what does she have with her?

3. How does Seward explain Lucy's lack of decomposition to Van Helsing?

4. What does Van Helsing use to make putty while visiting Lucy's tomb?

5. How does the vampire-hunting team manage to clear the chapel of the animals that have suddenly appeared?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the mark on Mina's head from the holy wafer symbolize?

2. What is Van Helsing's assessment of Harker's journals?

3. What favors does Mina ask of the team before they depart to meet Dracula's ship after she has been bitten?

4. Why does Van Helsing put a holy wafer on Mina's forehead after she has been bitten by Dracula?

5. Why is Dracula's destruction of the property in Seward's office not a total loss to the vampire-hunting team?

6. What does the team take Mina's first hypnosis session to mean?

7. Who ultimately kills vampire Lucy?

8. What arguments does Mina give for why she should come with the team when they leave to intercept Dracula's coffin once it has left London?

9. How is the vampire Lucy killed?

10. What does Renfield say about how he specifically got his injuries from Dracula?

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