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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. What book does the narrator find an old translation of in her father’s library one evening?
2. Where is the narrator at the beginning of Part Two, Chapter 25?
3. What restaurant employee tells the narrator and Paul a story in Part One, Chapter 7?
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 like to spend time when she is not in school?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Paul know the woman he encountered in the library in Part One, Chapter 8 is also researching Dracula?
2. Why does the narrator read the fictional account of Dracula in Bram Stoker’s novel?
3. Explain how Paul began to research Dracula.
4. Why is Barley angry with the narrator when she leaves Amsterdam in Part Two, Chapter 25?
5. Who is Helen? Why is she researching Dracula?
6. Why is Paul concerned about Helen in Part One, Chapter 23? How does she reassure him?
7. Why does Rossi go to America? What does he learn there?
8. Explain the relationship between Rossi and Paul.
9. Explain Rossi’s travels as described in his letter in Part One, Chapter 9.
10. What do Helen and Paul learn from the grubby male librarian when they confront him?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Define mood. How is it used in literature? How is it identified? What is the overall mood of The Historian? How do you know? How is it expressed?
Essay Topic 2
Compare and contrast the fictional character of Dracula in The Historian with the historical figure of Vlad the Impaler. How are they alike? How are they different?
Essay Topic 3
Define foreshadowing. How is it used in literature? How is it identified? Give at least one example of foreshadowing used in The Historian. What does it foreshadow?
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