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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 does Mina hope will assist Harker once he returns home?

2. When Dracula and Harker first stay up all night talking, what causes Dracula to abruptly end the conversation?

3. Who is Mr. Hawkins?

4. What causes Dracula to go into a "demonic fury" while he is watching Harker shave during Harker's first visit to Dracula's home?

5. When the novel opens, where is Jonathan Harker traveling to?

Short Essay Questions

1. What major physical changes does Lucy go through right before her death?

2. What initial impression does Dr. Seward's description of Mr. Renfield leave with the reader?

3. How does Dracula respond to the crucifix Harker wears around his neck?

4. What does Harker find suspicious about his meals during his initial visit to Dracula's home?

5. What two classic traits of a vampire does Dracula demonstrate in Chapter 4 (when Harker first begins to try to escape from Dracula's castle)?

6. How does Lucy respond to the transfusions that Van Helsing orders?

7. What is the reader supposed to assume is happening to the children of London at night after Lucy dies?

8. What about Lucy's nighttime behavior during Mina's visit is so troubling?

9. What does the Russian ship's log say has happened to the crew?

10. How does Harker react to the innkeeper's wife's gift for protection when she learns he is on a journey to see Count Dracula?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Complete a critical examination of the institution of marriage in the novel, making sure to address at least two ways that the marriages within the novel support the stereotypes and social expectations of the time and two ways that the marriages within the novel go against the stereotypes of the times.

Essay Topic 2

Throughout the novel, Stoker presents very strict, complicated ways of killing vampires -- and yet Dracula's own death doesn't seem to abide by these rules. Write an essay that addresses this complicated ending and what experience it leaves the reader with at the conclusion of the novel.

Essay Topic 3

"Dracula" is very much a product of the time it was written. Choose three key elements of the novel and discuss how they are specific of their time and would, consequently, not work if the novel were written today.

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