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

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

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

4. What book does the narrator find an old translation of in her father’s library one evening?
(a) Dante’s Inferno.
(b) Edgar Allan Poe’s “Murders in the Rue Morgue.”
(c) The Kama Sutra.
(d) Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

5. Where did Paul’ mentor go to graduate school?
(a) Yale.
(b) The university in Amsterdam.
(c) Oxford.
(d) An unnamed European university.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Part One, Chapter 5, what did Rossi think of Paul?

3. How many people survived the killings in the story told to the narrator and Paul in Part One, Chapter 7?

4. Where does the narrator live when the story begins?

5. Who is the item the narrator found when she searches for clues about her father’s whereabouts meant for?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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