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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 does Bora come to become interested in Dracula?
(a) His cousin is a servant of Dracula.
(b) His wife was taken by Dracula.
(c) He was also a student of Rossi’s.
(d) He finds a dragon book of his own.

2. What do the narrator and Barley take with them when they get off the train?
(a) Only their jackets.
(b) The narrator’s luggage.
(c) Barley's luggage.
(d) Paul’s letters.

3. What does the narrator find in her father’s room in Part Three, Chapter 63?
(a) Her father's wallet.
(b) A locked box with Helen’s name on the top.
(c) Postcards.
(d) Another dragon book.

4. How does Rossi continue his research while in captivity?
(a) He uses Dracula’s library.
(b) He interviews Dracula directly.
(c) He sneaks out of the tomb to go to the university library.
(d) He is not able to continue his research.

5. How does the narrator learn about Paul and Helen’s trip to Istanbul, according to Part Two, Chapter 26?
(a) Paul tells her about it.
(b) She reads about it in her father’s journal.
(c) Through Paul’s letters.
(d) Barley tells her about it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Rossi tell Helen and Paul Dracula is in Part Three, Chapter 72?

2. Who is pursuing the narrator and Barley on the train, according to Part Two, Chapter 31?

3. Where do the narrator and Barley get off the train?

4. How was Rossi able to continue chronicling what occurred to him after Dracula abducted him?

5. Who was the intended recipient of Rossi’s continued writings while in captivity?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do Paul and Helen think Rossi did not return to marry Helen’s mother? What does this lead Helen to believe?

2. Why did Rossi continue to write letters after Dracula took him?

3. Explain the courtship between Rossi and Helen’s mother from Helen’s mother’s perspective.

4. What does the narrator realize is strange about the postcards her mother wrote to her?

5. Who is Ranov? What is his relationship with Paul and Helen?

6. What advice does Rossi offer Helen and Paul when they go to find Dracula in the tomb?

7. Why was it difficult for Helen and Paul to travel to Budapest? How do they get around this difficulty?

8. Explain why Hugh James wants to kill Dracula.

9. What cliffhanger does the narrator leave you with in the Epilogue?

10. What conclusion does Paul come to, thanks to a letter discovered by Bora?

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