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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 is the name of the name of the house Dracula purchased for his London residency?

2. What is the first thing the vampire-hunting team notices when they enter the chapel while searching for the wooden boxes?

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

4. Why does Van Helsing want Mina to visit after Lucy's death?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the vampire Lucy killed?

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

3. How does Seward react to the idea that Lucy is a vampire after her death?

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

10. What does Mina tell the vampire-hunting team she sees the first time she undergoes hypnosis?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

One of the novel's major themes is the conflict between the traditional and the modern. Choose three characters or events and explain, using evidence from the text, how they represent this conflict.

Essay Topic 2

Complete a critical examination of the institution of marriage in the novel, making sure to address at least two ways that the marriages within the novel support the stereotypes and social expectations of the time and two ways that the marriages within the novel go against the stereotypes of the times.

Essay Topic 3

"Dracula" is very much a product of the time it was written. Choose three key elements of the novel and discuss how they are specific of their time and would, consequently, not work if the novel were written today.

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