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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 Mina do with Seward's diary entries?

2. What does the telegram from Mina (to the vampire-hunting team) say about Dracula?

3. What do Holmwood and Morris think about Renfield after they meet him?

4. After Mina is attacked, what is the vampire-hunting team's new plan?

5. What official -- and despairing -- news does the team learn about the arrival of Dracula's ship?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why does Mina ask Seward for permission to visit Renfield?

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

8. What does Van Helsing say needs to be done to Lucy in order for her to be set freed from being a vampire?

9. How does Seward try to draw Renfield out in conversation?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Dracula is supposedly based on a real historical figure named Vlad the Impaler. Find three similarities between this historical figure and the literary character and explain how and when they appear in the novel.

Essay Topic 2

The tone of "Dracula" can often be described as dark, tense, and foreboding. Discuss what a tone like this does to the reader and three literary devices Stoker uses throughout the text to create such a consistent tone.

Essay Topic 3

Pick two seemingly minor characters in the novel (such as Renfield and Mr. Swales) and discuss how Stoker uses them in at least three ways to contribute to the novel.

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