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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the salutation in Rossi’s letter in Part One, Chapter 8?
(a) My dear Master.
(b) Dear Paul.
(c) My dear and unfortunate successor.
(d) To those who come next.

2. What is the salutation in the first letter the narrator finds in her father’s library?
(a) My dear and unfortunate successor.
(b) My dear friend Paul.
(c) To the next victim.
(d) To my future servant.

3. What does the narrator find from her father one morning in Part One, Chapter 24?
(a) A map.
(b) A necklace.
(c) A letter.
(d) A book.

4. Why is Barley cross with the narrator in Part Two, Chapter 25?
(a) Because she left Amsterdam without telling anyone.
(b) Because she made him accompany her.
(c) Because she called Master James to discuss him.
(d) Because she is continuing her father’s research.

5. Why is Paul’s mentor familiar with the dragon book?
(a) He is the one who left the book for Paul.
(b) He found his own copy of the book when he was a graduate student.
(c) He wrote it.
(d) He has been looking for it for years.

6. How does the narrator pass her time while traveling in Part Two, Chapter 25?
(a) She begins writing her account of the events that have occurred so far.
(b) She examines a map.
(c) She reads her father’s letters.
(d) She chats with a tall, dark woman sitting opposite her.

7. What religious building to the narrator and her father tour in France in Part One, Chapter 10?
(a) An abbey.
(b) A mission chapel.
(c) A cathedral.
(d) A monastery.

8. What kills Hedges?
(a) A stroke.
(b) A punctured lung.
(c) Blood loss.
(d) Infection.

9. Who is the item the narrator found when she searches for clues about her father’s whereabouts meant for?
(a) Rossi.
(b) An unnamed recipient.
(c) The narrator.
(d) Helen.

10. What does the narrator discover about her father when they are chatting in a piazza in Venice?
(a) He killed someone in Istanbul.
(b) He was bitten in Istanbul.
(c) He was born in Istanbul.
(d) He has been to Istanbul.

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

12. What other two items does the narrator find in her father’s library with the book translation?
(a) A handwritten book with an author named “V.”
(b) An older-looking volume and a packet of yellowing papers.
(c) A portfolio of documents and research.
(d) A small, locked chest.

13. According to Rossi’s final letter, what is he determined to do?
(a) Avenge his wife’s death.
(b) Find Dracula.
(c) Live a quiet, happy life.
(d) Avenge Hedges’s death.

14. What does the narrator do with what she learns from the fictional account in Part One, Chapter 7?
(a) She has a clue about Rossi’s whereabouts.
(b) She realizes the fictional account is meant to cover up the truth.
(c) She compares it to the historical figure of Vlad.
(d) She realizes only Dracula could have written the fictional account.

15. According to Part One, Chapter 5, what did Rossi think of Paul?
(a) He admired his ambition.
(b) He considered him his best student.
(c) He was afraid of him.
(d) He thought he was smart, but lazy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the relationship between Rossi and Helen?

2. Why does Rossi stop his research after his room is ransacked?

3. What is the text of the dragon book?

4. How much time passes between Paul’s reading of the third and fourth letters from Rossi, according to Part One, Chapter 9?

5. What happens to Paul after he finishes reading Rossi’s letters?

(see the answer keys)

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