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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. Where do the narrator and her father travel in Part One, Chapter 7?

2. What does Rossi think of Helen?

3. What is the Radcliffe Camera?

4. What is Barley’s role while the narrator is visiting with her father?

5. According to the end of Part One, Chapter 24, where has Paul gone?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Explain the relationship between Rossi and Paul.

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why are Rossi’s letters addressed to “my dear and unfortunate successor”?

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 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 2

Compare and contrast Paul’s disappearance with Rossi’s disappearance. How are they alike? How are they different? How does each disappearance impact the narrator?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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