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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. How old is the narrator when the events of the story begin?
(a) Nineteen.
(b) Twenty-one.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Sixteen.
2. What does the narrator find when she searches for clues about her father’s whereabouts after his disappearance?
(a) A packet of letters.
(b) A photo of her mother.
(c) Another dragon book.
(d) A postcard from Dracula.
3. What other two items does the narrator find in her father’s library with the book translation?
(a) A handwritten book with an author named “V.”
(b) A small, locked chest.
(c) An older-looking volume and a packet of yellowing papers.
(d) A portfolio of documents and research.
4. What book does Paul notice a young woman reading when he is at the library in Part One, Chapter 8?
(a) Edgar Allan Poe’s Murders in the Rue Morgue, and Other Tales.
(b) Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
(c) The Collected Works of H. P. Lovecraft.
(d) Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire.
5. In what language were the maps found by Rossi in Istanbul labeled?
(a) English.
(b) Latin.
(c) Arabic.
(d) French.
Short Answer Questions
1. How many people survived the killings in the story told to the narrator and Paul in Part One, Chapter 7?
2. Where do Paul and Helen go to look for Dracula’s tomb at the end of Part One, Chapter 23?
3. Where does Rossi go to have the dragon book analyzed?
4. What is found on Rossi’s desk and ceiling after his disappearance?
5. What does the narrator discover about her father when they are chatting in a piazza in Venice?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why was Hedges attacked?
2. Explain who the narrator is in The Historian. What story is she telling?
3. Explain how Paul began to research Dracula.
4. Why are Rossi’s letters addressed to “my dear and unfortunate successor”?
5. Describe the narrator at the beginning of the events of the story.
6. Explain the relationship between Rossi and Paul.
7. Explain Johan Binnerts’s importance to the narrator, according to Part One, Chapter 5.
8. What is significant about the packet of letters the narrator finds in her father’s room in Amsterdam?
9. What do Helen and Paul learn from the grubby male librarian when they confront him?
10. Why is Paul concerned about Helen in Part One, Chapter 23? How does she reassure him?
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