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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. How many people survived the killings in the story told to the narrator and Paul in Part One, Chapter 7?
(a) One.
(b) Three.
(c) None.
(d) All but two.

2. Where does the narrator like to spend time when she is not in school?
(a) The library.
(b) A café near her home.
(c) Her father’s office.
(d) Her room.

3. Where does the narrator live when the story begins?
(a) The United States.
(b) France.
(c) Istanbul.
(d) Amsterdam.

4. What is the Radcliffe Camera?
(a) A library.
(b) A monastery.
(c) The only camera in existence known to successfully take a picture of Dracula.
(d) A town plaza.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where do the narrator and her father travel in Part One, Chapter 7?

3. What causes the narrator to notice the tall, dark man following her in Part One, Chapter 12?

4. What happens to Rossi’s friend Hedges in Part One, Chapter 12?

5. What does Rossi try to reconstruct in his third and fourth letters, according to Part One, Chapter 9?

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

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

5. Explain the relationship between Rossi and Paul.

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

7. Why was Hedges attacked?

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

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

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

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