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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 happens to Mr. Erozan after Helen and Paul read the letter about the Carpathian monk?

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

3. Where does the narrator expect to find her father, according to Part Three, Chapter 56?

4. Where do Helen and Paul go to make a life for themselves after finding Dracula’s sarcophagus?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What conclusion does Paul come to, thanks to a letter discovered by Bora?

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

5. Explain the courtship between Rossi and Helen’s mother from Helen’s mother’s perspective.

6. How is Dracula killed? Why is this significant?

7. Why did Rossi continue to write letters after Dracula took him?

8. Who kills Mr. Erozan? How? Why?

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

10. What does Dracula think of Paul? How do you know?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Define point of view. Identify each type of point of view and its characteristics. What is the point of view of The Historian? How do you know?

Essay Topic 2

Define suspense. How is it used in literature? Identify at least two examples of suspense in The Historian. What makes these moments suspenseful? How is each resolved?

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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