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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. Where is the narrator at the beginning of Part Two, Chapter 25?
(a) The train station.
(b) The bus station.
(c) Her home.
(d) The airport.

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

3. Where is the narrator to go after her father disappears?
(a) Hungary.
(b) Switzerland.
(c) America.
(d) Amsterdam.

4. Why does Rossi stop his research after his room is ransacked?
(a) He has reached a dead end.
(b) He has found what he is looking for.
(c) He believes it is too dangerous.
(d) His father falls in.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Paul’s mentor familiar with the dragon book?

2. What is the relationship between Master James and Barley?

3. How long ago did the events in the story occur?

4. What haunts the narrator about Dracula’s grisly torture methods?

5. What is found on Rossi’s desk and ceiling after his disappearance?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the relationship between Rossi and Paul.

2. Explain who the narrator is in The Historian. What story is she telling?

3. Why was Hedges attacked?

4. How does Rossi react to Hedges’s death? What does this reveal about Rossi?

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

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

7. Why are Rossi’s letters addressed to “my dear and unfortunate successor”?

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

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

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

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