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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the young woman in Part One, Chapter 8 admit to Paul?
(a) She is preparing for a trip to Hungary.
(b) She is preparing for a trip to Istanbul.
(c) She has just come from Hungary.
(d) She has just come from Istanbul.

2. How does Paul react when they tour the religious building in France in Part One, Chapter 10?
(a) With a mixture of fear and anger.
(b) With a mixture of fear and grief.
(c) With a mixture of anger and regret.
(d) With a mixture of anger and sadness.

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

4. What was Paul’s career when the dragon book came into his possession?
(a) He was a graduate student.
(b) He was teaching high school.
(c) He was a young university professor.
(d) He was serving in the military.

5. How does Rossi interpret Hedges’s death?
(a) As an omen of things to come.
(b) As revenge.
(c) As a warning to curtail his studies.
(d) As a senseless accident.

6. Where is Rossi before he returns to England at the end of Part One, Chapter 9?
(a) Bulgaria.
(b) Crete.
(c) Egypt.
(d) Italy.

7. How does Johan Binnerts help the narrator in Part One, Chapter 5?
(a) By helping her find Dracula-related documents.
(b) By showing her his own dragon book.
(c) By telling her his story.
(d) By showing her around the university campus.

8. How long ago did the events in the story occur?
(a) Eleven years.
(b) Seventeen years.
(c) Twenty years.
(d) Thirty-six years.

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

10. What causes the narrator to notice the tall, dark man following her in Part One, Chapter 12?
(a) A wall mural.
(b) A photograph of a tourist.
(c) A painting by a street artist.
(d) A street musician.

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

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

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

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

15. What killed several people in the story told to the narrator and Paul in Part One, Chapter 7?
(a) Fright.
(b) A strange plague.
(c) A strange animal.
(d) No one could determine the cause of the deaths.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Rossi give his documents to when he stops his research after his room is ransacked?

2. According to Part Two, Chapter 25, what is the next part of Paul’s story?

3. What is the text of the dragon book?

4. What does Rossi try to reconstruct in his third and fourth letters, according to Part One, Chapter 9?

5. What name does Rossi find on the location of a tomb he believed to be Vlad the Impaler’s?

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