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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rossi try to reconstruct in his third and fourth letters, according to Part One, Chapter 9?
(a) An understanding of Dracula’s powers.
(b) The timeline of his life.
(c) The best way to kill Dracula.
(d) His notes on Dracula.

2. What is the month and year of Rossi’s final letter, according to Part One, Chapter 13?
(a) August 1931.
(b) January 1931.
(c) December 1930.
(d) It is undated.

3. Who has a message for Rossi that is passed to him through Hedges?
(a) A tall, dark woman.
(b) The narrator’s mother.
(c) Paul.
(d) The person who attacked Hedges.

4. What is the printing date Howard Martin gives the dragon book when he analyzes it?
(a) 1612.
(b) Sometime in the sixteenth century.
(c) 1512.
(d) 1515.

5. Where do Paul and Helen go to look for Dracula’s tomb at the end of Part One, Chapter 23?
(a) Lake Ranov.
(b) Transylvania.
(c) Crete.
(d) Lake Snagov.

6. What haunts the narrator about Dracula’s grisly torture methods?
(a) The fact that her father was probably involved in helping Dracula.
(b) The fact that the events actually occurred.
(c) The fact that Dracula has never been brought to justice.
(d) The fact that her mother endured such torture.

7. What is the relationship between Rossi and Helen?
(a) Rossi is Helen’s friend from college.
(b) Rossi is Helen’s father.
(c) Rossi is Helen’s husband.
(d) Rossi is Helen’s uncle.

8. What does the narrator find when she searches for clues about her father’s whereabouts after his disappearance?
(a) A packet of letters.
(b) A postcard from Dracula.
(c) A photo of her mother.
(d) Another dragon book.

9. What sense does the narrator get from the glimpse into the letters found in her father’s library?
(a) Gloom.
(b) Anger.
(c) Hope.
(d) Desperation.

10. How much time passes between Paul’s reading of the third and fourth letters from Rossi, according to Part One, Chapter 9?
(a) An evening.
(b) A few days.
(c) He never reads the fourth letter.
(d) No time at all; he reads it immediately.

11. How many people survived the killings in the story told to the narrator and Paul in Part One, Chapter 7?
(a) None.
(b) Three.
(c) All but two.
(d) One.

12. Who does Paul encounter in the library on his first day of research into finding Dracula’s tomb?
(a) A tall, dark man.
(b) A grubby male librarian with puncture marks on his neck.
(c) An American professor who is also looking for Dracula’s tomb.
(d) Professor Rossi.

13. What country was Paul in when the dragon book came into his possession?
(a) Amsterdam.
(b) France.
(c) England.
(d) The United States.

14. What happens to Johan Binnerts at the beginning of Part One, Chapter 14?
(a) He is bitten.
(b) He is attacked by a tall, dark man.
(c) He is killed.
(d) He disappears.

15. What does Dracula’s name mean?
(a) The Dragon.
(b) Son of the dragon.
(c) Father of the dragon.
(d) Dragon Rider.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Paul’ mentor go to graduate school?

2. Who is the author of The Historian?

3. Where is Rossi before he returns to England at the end of Part One, Chapter 9?

4. What does the narrator admit to her father at the end of Part One, Chapter 1?

5. How long ago did the events in the story occur?

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