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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. In what decade does Paul pick up the narrative toward the end of Part One, Chapter 8?

2. What is the relationship between Rossi and Helen?

3. Who does Paul encounter in the library on his first day of research into finding Dracula’s tomb?

4. What happens to Paul after he finishes reading Rossi’s letters?

5. What fictional account does the narrator read when she returns to Amsterdam in Part One, Chapter 7?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Paul know the woman he encountered in the library in Part One, Chapter 8 is also researching Dracula?

2. Why was Hedges attacked?

3. Who is Barley? What is his role in the story?

4. What does Paul think of the monastery at Les Pyrenees-Orientales? How do you know?

5. Who is Helen? Why is she researching Dracula?

6. Explain Johan Binnerts’s importance to the narrator, according to Part One, Chapter 5.

7. What is significant about the packet of letters the narrator finds in her father’s room in Amsterdam?

8. Explain what happened at the monastery in France that Paul and the narrator visited.

9. Why does Rossi go to America? What does he learn there?

10. Why are Rossi’s letters addressed to “my dear and unfortunate successor”?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Define mood. How is it used in literature? How is it identified? What is the overall mood of The Historian? How do you know? How is it expressed?

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the fictional character of Dracula in The Historian with the historical figure of Vlad the Impaler. How are they alike? How are they different?

Essay Topic 3

Define point of view. Identify each type of point of view and its characteristics. What is the point of view of The Historian? How do you know?

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