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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. What does Helen suspect about Jozsef and Ranov?

2. What information does Eva give Helen and Paul that helps in their investigation?

3. What is Sveti Georgi?

4. What do Paul and Helen decide to do in Part Three, Chapter 62?

5. What do Helen and Paul find in the crypt at Sveti Georgi?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Ranov? What is his relationship with Paul and Helen?

2. What does the narrator realize about Barley as they travel together by train?

3. Why was it difficult for Helen and Paul to travel to Budapest? How do they get around this difficulty?

4. What do Helen and Paul decide about their future in Part Three, Chapter 62?

5. How did Rossi continue his research after Dracula abducted him?

6. Explain the courtship of Rossi and Helen’s mother from Rossi’s perspective.

7. What conclusion does Paul come to, thanks to a letter discovered by Bora?

8. Who kills Mr. Erozan? How? Why?

9. What confusion does Rossi have when Paul and Helen initially find him in Part Three, Chapter 72?

10. What does Paul suspect about Helen when they travel to Hungary? How do you know?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Define characterization. Identify and define each type of characterization, and give at least one example of each from the story.

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast Paul’s disappearance with Rossi’s disappearance. How are they alike? How are they different? How does each disappearance impact the narrator?

Essay Topic 3

Define symbolism. How is it used in literature? How is it identified? Identify at least one symbol found in The Historian. What does it symbolize? How do you know?

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