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

2. How many of the wooden boxes does the vampire-hunting team find when they enter the chapel?

3. What creature begins to fill the chapel when the vampire-hunting team enters, looking for the wooden boxes?

4. What does Mina reveal under hypnosis about the whereabouts of Dracula's ship?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Renfield say about how he specifically got his injuries from Dracula?

3. Why does Seward agree to share his diary with Mina?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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.

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