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

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

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

4. What does the narrator insist that her father do in Part One, Chapter 1?
(a) Tell her where her mother is.
(b) Take her along on his next trip.
(c) Give her the items she finds in the library.
(d) Let her go to school in France.

5. What does the narrator discover about her father when they are chatting in a piazza in Venice?
(a) He has been to Istanbul.
(b) He was bitten in Istanbul.
(c) He killed someone in Istanbul.
(d) He was born in Istanbul.

Short Answer Questions

1. What injury does Hedges have when he gives Rossi the message?

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

3. What is the printing date Howard Martin gives the dragon book when he analyzes it?

4. What specific story does Paul tell at the beginning of Part One, Chapter 6?

5. Where is the narrator to go after her father disappears?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Hedges attacked?

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

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

4. What is mysterious about the green book that is in Paul’s possession, according to Part One, Chapter 2?

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

6. Explain how Paul began to research Dracula.

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

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

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

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

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