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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. Why is Paul’s mentor familiar with the dragon book?

2. Where does the narrator believe she will find her father?

3. What is the salutation in Rossi’s letter in Part One, Chapter 8?

4. What book does Paul notice a young woman reading when he is at the library in Part One, Chapter 8?

5. What sense does the narrator get from the glimpse into the letters found in her father’s library?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Paul know the woman he encountered in the library in Part One, Chapter 8 is also researching Dracula?

4. Explain what prompted Rossi to give up his initial research into the green dragon book.

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

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

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

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

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

10. Explain how Paul began to research Dracula.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Explain the relationship between Paul and Rossi in the story. How does their relationship impact the story? How does their relationship end?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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