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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 the team learn once they arrive at their new destination?

2. Why does the group decide that Mina must once more be privy to the plans to destroy Dracula?

3. What physical changes does Harker notice about Mina after she has been bitten?

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

5. What does Seward conclude Renfield has a sense of assurance about, despite his wildly different moods and behaviors?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How is the vampire Lucy killed?

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

6. 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?

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

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

10. What is the first vow the vampire-hunting team makes to each other?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Throughout the novel, Stoker presents very strict, complicated ways of killing vampires -- and yet Dracula's own death doesn't seem to abide by these rules. Write an essay that addresses this complicated ending and what experience it leaves the reader with at the conclusion of the novel.

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

Compare and contrast one virtuous (by Victorian standards) female character with another non-virtuous female character from "Dracula". Keep in mind that the vampire version of a character can be compared and contrasted with her non-vampire self.

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