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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 Helen and Paul find Dracula’s sarcophagus?

2. What injury did Hugh James’s fiancé suffer?

3. From what order does the woman Rossi falls in love with descend?

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

5. What does Hugh James offer to do for Paul?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the courtship of Rossi and Helen’s mother from Rossi’s perspective.

2. What does the narrator suspect about the love letter she finds from her father to Helen in Part Three, Chapter 49?

3. Who is Ranov? What is his relationship with Paul and Helen?

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

5. What does Paul suspect about Helen when they travel to Hungary? How do you know?

6. What advice does Rossi offer Helen and Paul when they go to find Dracula in the tomb?

7. Why was it difficult for Helen and Paul to travel to Budapest? How do they get around this difficulty?

8. Explain why Helen stayed away from her family for so long.

9. Why do Helen and Paul return home after finding Dracula’s tomb?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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