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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 happens to Johan Binnerts at the beginning of Part One, Chapter 14?

2. According to Part One, Chapter 2, what year did Paul’s mentor find the dragon book dated back to?

3. What is the message Hedges gives to Rossi?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Helen? Why is she researching Dracula?

2. Describe the narrator at the beginning of the events of the story.

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

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

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

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

7. Why was Hedges attacked?

8. Explain how Paul began to research Dracula.

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

10. Why is Paul concerned about Helen in Part One, Chapter 23? How does she reassure 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

Give a brief literary analysis and critique of The Historian.

Essay Topic 3

Define epilogues. How are they used in literature? Explain how the epilogue of The Historian impacts the story. What is revealed in the Epilogue? How would the story be different without it?

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