View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Part One, Chapter 8, where did the second of Rossi’s letters come from?

3. What is Johan Binnerts’s job?

4. What restaurant employee tells the narrator and Paul a story in Part One, Chapter 7?

5. What killed several people in the story told to the narrator and Paul in Part One, Chapter 7?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Paul concerned about Helen in Part One, Chapter 23? How does she reassure him?

2. Who is Helen? Why is she researching Dracula?

3. How does Paul know the woman he encountered in the library in Part One, Chapter 8 is also researching Dracula?

4. What is significant about the packet of letters the narrator finds in her father’s room in Amsterdam?

5. Explain Johan Binnerts’s importance to the narrator, according to Part One, Chapter 5.

6. Why does Rossi go to America? What does he learn there?

7. Who is Barley? What is his role in the story?

8. Explain what happened at the monastery in France that Paul and the narrator visited.

9. What does Paul think of the monastery at Les Pyrenees-Orientales? How do you know?

10. Explain what prompted Rossi to give up his initial research into the green dragon book.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 740 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample