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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 the first letter the narrator finds in her father’s library?
(a) My dear friend Paul.
(b) To the next victim.
(c) To my future servant.
(d) My dear and unfortunate successor.

2. What does the young woman in Part One, Chapter 8 admit to Paul?
(a) She has just come from Istanbul.
(b) She is preparing for a trip to Istanbul.
(c) She has just come from Hungary.
(d) She is preparing for a trip to Hungary.

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

4. What killed several people in the story told to the narrator and Paul in Part One, Chapter 7?
(a) A strange animal.
(b) A strange plague.
(c) Fright.
(d) No one could determine the cause of the deaths.

5. What is the relationship between Rossi and Helen?
(a) Rossi is Helen’s husband.
(b) Rossi is Helen’s friend from college.
(c) Rossi is Helen’s father.
(d) Rossi is Helen’s uncle.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Part Two, Chapter 25, what is the next part of Paul’s story?

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

3. How does Rossi interpret Hedges’s death?

4. What happened to the grubby male librarian?

5. What is missing from Rossi’s bookshelf after he disappears?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why is Barley angry with the narrator when she leaves Amsterdam in Part Two, Chapter 25?

10. Describe the narrator at the beginning of the events of the story.

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