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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 does Van Helsing use to make putty while visiting Lucy's tomb?
(a) Communion wafers and putty mix.
(b) A drop of everyone's blood.
(c) Stones from the church.
(d) Putty that has been blessed.

2. Why does Van Helsing want Mina to visit after Lucy's death?
(a) He wants to get her away from Harker.
(b) He wants to ask her about her own health.
(c) He wants to talk to her about Lucy.
(d) He wants to check her for bite marks.

3. What does Stoker say the vampire Lucy look like?
(a) Her hair "blows in the wind as if it were smoke."
(b) She resembles the "darkest of demons."
(c) Her arms look like "the scrawny limbs of a dead tree."
(d) Her eyes blaze with "unholy light."

4. How does Holmwood plan to gain entry to Dracula's Piccadilly house?
(a) By breaking in.
(b) By pretending to be a deliveryman.
(c) By posing as the homeowner and hiring a locksmith.
(d) By pretending to be a plumber.

5. Where does the group finally learn the missing wooden boxes are located?
(a) Piccadilly.
(b) America.
(c) Transylvania.
(d) On a ship in the harbor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the group fear will happen to Mina if she dies before Dracula is killed?

2. Where does the team hope to intercept Dracula?

3. What does Lucy do with what she has with her when she meets Van Helsing, Seward, Holmwood, and Morris near her tomb?

4. In what form is Seward's diary recorded?

5. When does Mina end up reading Harker's diary?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mina conclude about how Dracula will be trying to get home?

2. Why do Mina and Holmwood agree to share their diaries with Seward?

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

4. What prayer does Mina ask her husband to read aloud?

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

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

7. How is the vampire Lucy killed?

8. Why is Mina left behind during the first mission of the vampire-hunting team?

9. Why doesn't the vampire-hunting team want to break into Dracula's Piccadilly house?

10. How does Van Helsing explain what a vampire is to Seward?

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