View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Rossi’s final letter, what is he determined to do?
(a) Avenge his wife’s death.
(b) Avenge Hedges’s death.
(c) Find Dracula.
(d) Live a quiet, happy life.

2. Why is Paul’s mentor familiar with the dragon book?
(a) He is the one who left the book for Paul.
(b) He has been looking for it for years.
(c) He wrote it.
(d) He found his own copy of the book when he was a graduate student.

3. Who is the author of The Historian?
(a) Elizabeth Kostova.
(b) Diane Setterfield.
(c) Eoin Colfer.
(d) Jasper Fforde.

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

5. What fictional account does the narrator read when she returns to Amsterdam in Part One, Chapter 7?
(a) Evelyn Bard’s The Demon Who Would Be King.
(b) Stephanie Meyers’s Twilight.
(c) Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
(d) Edgar Allan Poe’s ”Murders in the Rue Morgue.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Paul encounter in the library on his first day of research into finding Dracula’s tomb?

2. According to the end of Part One, Chapter 24, where has Paul gone?

3. What book does Paul notice a young woman reading when he is at the library in Part One, Chapter 8?

4. What kills Hedges?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Explain what happened at the monastery in France that Paul and the narrator visited.

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

10. Why was Hedges attacked?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 764 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample