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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 is missing from Rossi’s bookshelf after he disappears?

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

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

4. What haunts the narrator about Dracula’s grisly torture methods?

5. What injury does Hedges have when he gives Rossi the message?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain what prompts Paul to tell the narrator about events from his past.

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

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

4. What is significant about the packet of letters the narrator finds in her father’s room in Amsterdam?

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

6. Explain the relationship between Rossi and Paul.

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

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

9. Explain what happened to Hedges when he was attacked in Part One, Chapter 12.

10. Why was Hedges attacked?

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 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?

Essay Topic 3

Define theme. How is it used in literature? Identify at least one theme found in The Historian, and explain how it is expressed throughout the story.

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