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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. Where do Seward and Van Helsing hide on the first night they visit Lucy's tomb?

2. What object does Dracula flee with after attacking the vampire-hunting team?

3. What happened to the agent who took over Dracula's box?

4. How does Mina react to Van Helsing's assessment of Harker's journal?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Why does Van Helsing put a holy wafer on Mina's forehead after she has been bitten by Dracula?

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

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

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

Choose three instances of foreshadowing that happen within the first three chapters of the novel and describe which future event that each predicts/foreshadows.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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