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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. How many of the wooden boxes does the vampire-hunting team locate during their mission after Mina is attacked?
2. Why does the group decide that Mina must once more be privy to the plans to destroy Dracula?
3. How does Holmwood plan to gain entry to Dracula's Piccadilly house?
4. How does the vampire-hunting team manage to clear the chapel of the animals that have suddenly appeared?
5. What does Renfield manage to tell the vampire-hunting team, despite his injuries?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Seward try to draw Renfield out in conversation?
2. What does the mark on Mina's head from the holy wafer symbolize?
3. What prayer does Mina ask her husband to read aloud?
4. How does Van Helsing explain what a vampire is to Seward?
5. Why does Seward agree to share his diary with Mina?
6. Why does Van Helsing put a holy wafer on Mina's forehead after she has been bitten by Dracula?
7. What does Renfield say about how he specifically got his injuries from Dracula?
8. Why does Mina ask Seward for permission to visit Renfield?
9. What does Mina tell the vampire-hunting team she sees the first time she undergoes hypnosis?
10. What favors does Mina ask of the team before they depart to meet Dracula's ship after she has been bitten?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write a paper that critically examines what happens to Lucy in the novel. Is her murder justified? Could her death even be considered a murder? Was it the only option? Was it an act of love or an act of despair -- or both? Would you have done the same thing to her? Would you have wanted your life to end the way hers did?
Essay Topic 2
Choose and explain four traditional elements of a Gothic novel and cite an example of each from "Dracula".
Essay Topic 3
Dracula is supposedly based on a real historical figure named Vlad the Impaler. Find three similarities between this historical figure and the literary character and explain how and when they appear in the novel.
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