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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 do Helen and Paul discover when they find Dracula’s sarcophagus?

2. What does the narrator reveal about herself at the end of Part Two, Chapter 30?

3. What do Paul and Helen decide to do in Part Three, Chapter 62?

4. What does Mr. Erozan do for a living?

5. Who helps arrange Helen and Paul’s trip to Hungary?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator think about her father when she finds his empty room in France? Why?

2. What do Helen and Paul decide about their future in Part Three, Chapter 62?

3. Why did the narrator never know her mother growing up?

4. Why do Helen and Paul drive a silver dagger into Rossi’s heart?

5. What is significant about the postcards from Helen Rossi that the narrator finds in Part Three, Chapter 63?

6. What confusion does Rossi have when Paul and Helen initially find him in Part Three, Chapter 72?

7. Why do the narrator and Barley get off the train before their designated stop?

8. Why does Jozsef interrogate Aunt Eva about Paul?

9. How did Rossi continue his research after Dracula abducted him?

10. Why did Helen and Paul take the book on the life of Saint George with them when they left the tomb?

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

Define characterization. Identify and define each type of characterization, and give at least one example of each from the story.

Essay Topic 3

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

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