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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Where does the narrator live when the story begins?
(a) The United States.
(b) Istanbul.
(c) Amsterdam.
(d) France.
2. What does the narrator discover about her father when they are chatting in a piazza in Venice?
(a) He was bitten in Istanbul.
(b) He killed someone in Istanbul.
(c) He has been to Istanbul.
(d) He was born in Istanbul.
3. What happens to Rossi’s friend Hedges in Part One, Chapter 12?
(a) He suffers a fall.
(b) He is in a fire.
(c) He is attacked.
(d) He is in a car accident.
4. What wound does the suspicious stranger only Rossi sees have?
(a) A badly burned hand.
(b) Stitches above his eye.
(c) Puncture marks on his neck.
(d) A bruise on his neck.
5. What is Barley’s role while the narrator is visiting with her father?
(a) Tudor.
(b) Bodyguard.
(c) Escort.
(d) Campus guide.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the narrator find from her father one morning in Part One, Chapter 24?
2. What specific story does Paul tell at the beginning of Part One, Chapter 6?
3. Who does Paul take the dragon book to when he discovers it does not belong in the library?
4. How long ago did the events in the story occur?
5. Where is Rossi before he returns to England at the end of Part One, Chapter 9?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does the narrator read the fictional account of Dracula in Bram Stoker’s novel?
2. Explain who the narrator is in The Historian. What story is she telling?
3. Why was Hedges attacked?
4. Explain what happened to Hedges when he was attacked in Part One, Chapter 12.
5. Explain what prompted Rossi to give up his initial research into the green dragon book.
6. Explain how Paul began to research Dracula.
7. What does Paul think of the monastery at Les Pyrenees-Orientales? How do you know?
8. Explain what prompts Paul to tell the narrator about events from his past.
9. Who is Barley? What is his role in the story?
10. What is significant about the packet of letters the narrator finds in her father’s room in Amsterdam?
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