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Elizabeth Kostova
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 125 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Historian Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 monastery.
(d) A cathedral.

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

3. In what decade does Paul pick up the narrative toward the end of Part One, Chapter 8?
(a) The 1960s.
(b) This information is not given.
(c) The 1940s.
(d) The 1950s.

4. 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 realizes only Dracula could have written the fictional account.
(d) She compares it to the historical figure of Vlad.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the young woman in Part One, Chapter 8 admit to Paul?

2. What does the narrator find from her father one morning in Part One, Chapter 24?

3. What type of business are the narrator and Paul at when Paul continues his story about the dragon book in Part One, Chapter 3?

4. What is Barley’s role while the narrator is visiting with her father?

5. What sense does the narrator get from the glimpse into the letters found in her father’s library?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What do Helen and Paul learn from the grubby male librarian when they confront him?

4. Why was Hedges attacked?

5. Explain what prompts Paul to tell the narrator about events from his past.

6. Explain what happened to Hedges when he was attacked in Part One, Chapter 12.

7. Explain Rossi’s travels as described in his letter in Part One, Chapter 9.

8. Why does the narrator read the fictional account of Dracula in Bram Stoker’s novel?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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