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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 year and month is Rossi’s third letter dated?

2. What is the year at the beginning of Part One, Chapter 24?

3. What does Paul reassure Helen about in Part One, Chapter 23?

4. What kills Hedges?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Explain Rossi’s travels as described in his letter in Part One, Chapter 9.

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

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

7. What does Paul think of the monastery at Les Pyrenees-Orientales? How do you know?

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

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

10. Why was Hedges attacked?

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 Freytag’s Pyramid. Identify the elements of Freytag’s Pyramid and give at least one example of each element from the story.

Essay Topic 3

Define genre. What is its purpose in literature? Identify the genre of The Historian. What characteristics of that genre are seen in the story?

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