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Elizabeth Kostova
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 125 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Historian Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

Elizabeth Kostova
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 125 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. According to Part One, Chapter 2, what year did Paul’s mentor find the dragon book dated back to?
(a) 1500 or earlier.
(b) 1700 or earlier.
(c) It is too old to come up with a conclusive date.
(d) 1600 or earlier.

2. What single word is on the banner held by the dragon in the dragon book?
(a) ISTANBUL.
(b) DRAKULYA.
(c) BARTOLOMEO.
(d) PAUL.

3. What valuable information does Rossi tell Paul at the end of Part Two, Chapter 2?
(a) There is money in hunting Dracula.
(b) He has met Dracula.
(c) Dracula is not the monster he is believed to be.
(d) Dracula is still alive.

4. What does Paul reassure Helen about in Part One, Chapter 23?
(a) That he will always protect her.
(b) That they will find what they’re looking for.
(c) That the grubby male librarian is actually dead.
(d) That one bite is not enough to turn her.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what library does the narrator begin her own research, according to Part One, Chapter 5?

2. How much time passes between Paul’s reading of the third and fourth letters from Rossi, according to Part One, Chapter 9?

3. What is the relationship between Rossi and Helen?

4. What is the year at the beginning of Part One, Chapter 24?

5. In what area does Johan Binnerts specialize?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Explain the relationship between Rossi and Paul.

9. Why was Hedges attacked?

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

(see the answer keys)

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