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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. When Seward, Van Helsing, Holmwood, and Morris go to Lucy's tomb, what do they find inside her coffin?

2. What does Seward take Renfield's sense of self-assurance to mean?

3. How does the team travel en route to meet the ship Dracula is on once he has left London?

4. What is the name of the name of the house Dracula purchased for his London residency?

5. Despite his injuries, what does Renfield manage to tell the vampire-hunting team about Mina?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the first vow the vampire-hunting team makes to each other?

2. What does the team take Mina's first hypnosis session to mean?

3. What is Van Helsing's assessment of Harker's journals?

4. What does Renfield say about how he specifically got his injuries from Dracula?

5. What favors does Mina ask of the team before they depart to meet Dracula's ship after she has been bitten?

6. What does the mark on Mina's head from the holy wafer symbolize?

7. After Mina learns of her psychic connection to Dracula, why does she excuse herself from learning more about the vampire-hunting team's plans?

8. What prayer does Mina ask her husband to read aloud?

9. What does Van Helsing say needs to be done to Lucy in order for her to be set freed from being a vampire?

10. Why does Van Helsing put a holy wafer on Mina's forehead after she has been bitten by Dracula?

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 a vampire character from another novel or movie you are familiar with and compare and contrast that character with Stoker's Dracula. Make sure to list at least five similarities and/or differences.

Essay Topic 3

The use of religious symbols -- such as crucifixes and holy wafers -- are present throughout the novel. Discuss the role of religion (and of Christianity in particular) in "Dracula".

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