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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the narrator believe she will find her father?
(a) France.
(b) Hungary.
(c) America.
(d) Istanbul.

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

3. What is Barley’s role while the narrator is visiting with her father?
(a) Bodyguard.
(b) Campus guide.
(c) Escort.
(d) Tudor.

4. According to the end of Part One, Chapter 24, where has Paul gone?
(a) To look for Rossi.
(b) To stay away from the narrator for her protection.
(c) To look for her mother.
(d) To look for Dracula.

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

6. What is the text of the dragon book?
(a) It is an account of Paul’s life up to that point.
(b) It is a journal written by Dracula.
(c) It is an account of the life of Dracula.
(d) The book is blank.

7. Whose voice is Part One, Chapter 2 in?
(a) The narrator’s mother’s.
(b) Rossi’s.
(c) Paul’s.
(d) The narrator’s.

8. What is missing from Rossi’s bookshelf after he disappears?
(a) A key.
(b) The rest of his research documents.
(c) A photo of his wife.
(d) His dragon book.

9. What name does Rossi find on the location of a tomb he believed to be Vlad the Impaler’s?
(a) His own.
(b) Dracula’s.
(c) His wife’s.
(d) Paul’s.

10. What wound does the suspicious stranger only Rossi sees have?
(a) Stitches above his eye.
(b) A badly burned hand.
(c) A bruise on his neck.
(d) Puncture marks on his neck.

11. When did Vlad the Impaler rule?
(a) The 16th Century.
(b) Beginning in the 12th Century.
(c) The 15th Century.
(d) The 14th Century.

12. Who is the author of The Historian?
(a) Diane Setterfield.
(b) Elizabeth Kostova.
(c) Eoin Colfer.
(d) Jasper Fforde.

13. What is the year at the beginning of Part One, Chapter 24?
(a) 1966.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1933.
(d) 2008.

14. According to Part One, Chapter 8, where did the second of Rossi’s letters come from?
(a) UCLA.
(b) Oxford.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Kings College.

15. Who finds the narrator as she is traveling in Part Two, Chapter 25?
(a) Rossi.
(b) Paul.
(c) Helen.
(d) Barley.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Part One, Chapter 5, what did Rossi think of Paul?

2. Why is Barley cross with the narrator in Part Two, Chapter 25?

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

4. Who does the narrator realize she is staring at toward the end of Part One, Chapter 4?

5. What does the narrator do with what she learns from the fictional account in Part One, Chapter 7?

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