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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who has a message for Rossi that is passed to him through Hedges?

3. What is the relationship between Master James and Barley?

4. What name does Rossi find on the location of a tomb he believed to be Vlad the Impaler’s?

5. Where does the narrator live when the story begins?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is mysterious about the green book that is in Paul’s possession, according to Part One, Chapter 2?

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

6. Why was Hedges attacked?

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

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

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

10. Explain the relationship between Rossi and Paul.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Define point of view. Identify each type of point of view and its characteristics. What is the point of view of The Historian? How do you know?

Essay Topic 2

Define setting. What is its role in literature? How does setting affect the story of The Historian? Identify and describe one specific setting found in the story.

Essay Topic 3

Define characterization. Identify and define each type of characterization, and give at least one example of each from the story.

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