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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 is the first thing the vampire-hunting team notices when they enter the chapel while searching for the wooden boxes?
(a) An overpowering, nauseating odor.
(b) The terrible cold that suddenly occurred.
(c) Strange music coming from within.
(d) The lack of any dust in the room.

2. What is Renfield's opinion of Mina?
(a) That she is a vampire in disguise.
(b) That she should be committed to the asylum, too.
(c) That she is kind and charming.
(d) That she is cruel and mean.

3. Which word can best be used to describe Dracula's appearance in front of Mina, Harker, Seward, Holmwood, and Morris?
(a) Conciliatory.
(b) Expected.
(c) Sudden.
(d) Friendly.

4. After Mina is attacked, what is the vampire-hunting team's new plan?
(a) To fan out and search for Dracula in the marketplace.
(b) To bait Dracula with a bleeding Mina.
(c) To destroy all of Dracula's boxes in one day.
(d) To wait for Mina to die before they do anything else.

5. Who does Van Helsing blame for the error in the team's plans to meet Dracula's ship?
(a) Mina.
(b) Lucy.
(c) Harker.
(d) Himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Renfield and Mina's initial conversation like?

2. What does Seward take Renfield's sense of self-assurance to mean?

3. How does Van Helsing open Lucy's tomb?

4. Where does the group head after they realize they will not meet Dracula's ship where they first planned to?

5. What does Van Helsing flash at the Count to make him disappear while he is with Mina and Harker?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What tools does Mina use to deduce where Dracula goes once he is back on land?

4. What can the reader assume has happened to Mina after she is found looking very pale after a thick mist entered her room?

5. Who ultimately kills vampire Lucy?

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

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

8. How is the vampire Lucy killed?

9. After Mina learns of her psychic connection to Dracula, why does she excuse herself from learning more about the vampire-hunting team's plans?

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

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