DraculaBram Stoker

Tavi Puig Hernandis

1ST BAT A

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1.- In 1875, Jonathan Harker received a letter from Count Dracula.

(a)What country was thw letter from?

Transylvania

(b)What did Count Dracula want?

He wanted buy a house in Englan

(c)Why did Count Dracula ask Jonathan Harker to visit him?

He asked Harker to bring them to Castle Dracula

2.-Jonathan asked the innkeeper at Bistriz to tell him about Count

Dracula.

(a)What did the innkeeper do?

He walked away without answering Jonathan’s questions.

(b)What did the people at the inn do at first?

They stopped talking and looked at Harker in fear and surprise.

3.-Jonathan looked up a word in his dictionary.

(a)Who was saying the word?

The people in the inn.

(b)What was the word in English?

Vampire.

(c)What di Jonathan read in the book Mina had given him?

He read many stories about Transylvanian vampires.

4.-When Jonathan go into the coach, the innkeeper ran up to the

window.

(a)What did the innkeeper say to Jonathan?

Must you go to Castle Dracula?

(b)What did the innkeeper give to Jonathan?

A gold cross on a chain.

5.- What terrible sound did Jonathan hear when it got dark.

2The howling of wolves.

1.- Count Dracula met Jonathan at the door of his castle.

(a)What did Count Dracula look like?

He was a very tall old man with white hair and face and he was

dressed in black.

(b)What did his hand feel like?

It was cold as ice.

2.-‘Can you hear the children of the night?’ the Count said to

Jonathan.‘Listen to their music.’

(a)What were the children of the night?

The wolves.

(b)What was their music?

Their howling.

3.- Jonathan noticed two strange things about Dracula

(a) What did Jonathan notice about Dracula’s teeth?

They were very long and sharp and they were white.

(b) What did Jonathan notice about the nails on Dracula’s fingers?

They were long and pointed.

4.-In the morning, Jonathan was shaving in front of his small mirror

(a) Why was Jonathan surprised when he heard Dracula’s voice

behind him?

Because Dracula had come up behind him, but he had not seen.

(b) What happened when Dracula touched the cross around

Jonathan’s neck?

The fire in his eyes disappeared.

(c) What did Dracula do with the mirror?

He threw it out of the open window.

5.-Why did Jonathan begin to think that he was a prisoner in Castle

Dracula?

Because wherever he went, he found locked doors, some windows

were open, but they were some meters above the ground.

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1.- Jonathan fell asleep in an unlocked room. When he woke up, the

air was full of golden dust.

(a)What did the golden dust change into?

The shapes of three young women.

(b) What did Dracula do when he came into the room?

One of the women was going to kiss Jonathan but Dracula shouted

and pulled the woman away from him.

(c) What did he say?

Get back, he is mine. How dare you touch him!

2.- Dracula asked Jonathan to write three letters to Mina.

(a)Did Jonathan write what he wanted in the letters?

Yes

(b)What did Jonathan think that the Count was planning to do?

Kill him

(c)What was the date Jonathan put on the last letter?

29th June

3.- On 29th June, Dracula spoke to Jonathan.

(a) What did Dracula say?

He said that he was going to England the next day and he said that

perhaps he and Jonathan will meet again.

(b) What did Jonathan decide to do?

To follow Dracula to his room.

(c) What did Jonathan see from the window in the passage?

He saw Dracula come out of his window and go down the wall .

4 .- Jonathan found a way into an old chapel.

(a) How many wooden boxes were in the chapel?

Fifty.

(b)Who did Jonathan find in one of the boxes?

Count Dracula.

(c) What did he look like?

His hair was now dark grey, his face was fat and red.

5 Jonathan heard some men coming. He left the chapel quickly.

(a) What were the men doing to the boxes?

They were hammering down the lids of the boxes.

(b) Where was Dracula going?

To England.

6 What did Jonathan do?

He put some gold coins in his pockets and climbed out of the window

of the Count’s room.

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1.- Mina received letters from Jonathan. Why was she very worried?

The letters were short and strange, she thoughtJonathan was ill.

2.- Mina went to stay with her friend Lucy West.

(a) Where did Lucy live?

In Hythe.

(b) What did they do every day?

They went out walking.

(c) Where did Lucy like going to most of all?

To the old church on the hill.

3.- There was a storm on the night of 8th August. Lucy’s servant said

that a ship had been wrecked.

(a) Where had the ship come from?

From Varna.

(b)What did the servant say was strange about the ship?

He said there was no one on it, living or dead.

(c) What happened as soon as the ship touched the shore?

A dog jumped down and ran away up the hill.

4.- The ship was full of big, wooden boxes. What was in the box that

broke open?

Earth.

5.- That night, Mina woke up. Lucy was not in the bedroom.

(a)Where did Mina find Lucy?

In the churchyard.

(b)What did Mina notice on Lucy’s throat as she put her to bed?

Two red marks.

6.- After that night, Lucy became paler and paler.

(a) Why did Mina want to send a telegram to Arthur?

Because she knew Lucy was ill.

(b) Why would Lucy not let her?

She said that she did not want to worry Arthur. She said he was doing

important work in Professor Van Helsing’s hospital.

(c)Why did Mina lock the bedroom door?

To keep her friend safe

7.- One night, Mina found Lucy leaning out of the bedroom window

(a) What was sitting beside Lucy?

A black bird.

(b) What did Mina notice about the marks on Lucy’s throat?

They looked very red and

painful.

8.- Why did Mina have to leave at once?

She received a letter from a hospital in Budapest. It said that

Jonathan had been very ill and he was asking for her.

9.- Mina asked Jonathan about Castle Dracula. What did Jonathan

reply?

He said, ‘I cannot talk about Castle Dracula now.

Terrible things happened there.’ He said he didn’t know whether he

had been ill or mad.

10.- Who did Jonathan see on their first evening in London?

Count Dracula.

11.- A telegram was waiting for Mina when she got home.

(a) Who was the telegram from?

Doctor Arthur West.

(b) What did the telegram say?

‘My dear wife is dead. She was buried yesterday. Arthur.’

51.- ‘Before she died, Lucy began to dream strange dreams,’ Arthur

told Mina and Jonathan

(a) What did Lucy see in her dreams?

Red eyes and golden dust moving in the air.

(b) Why was Jonathan surprised?

Because he had seen the golden dust at Castle Dracula and he had

seen Dracula’s eyes shining like red fire.

2.-Why did Lucy need a blood transfusion?

Because she had lost a lot of blood.

3.-What questions did Jonathan ask about Lucy’s throat?

He asked whether there were any small, red marks on Lucy’s throat.

4.- What plants did Professor Van Helsing bring into Lucy’s bedroom?

Garlic plants.

5.- Lucy asked Arthur to kiss her. What did Professor Van Helsing do?

He pulled Arthur away.

6.- When Arthur finished telling them about Lucy’s death, Mina and

Jonathan’s eyes were full of fear. What were they afraid of?

They were afraid that Dracula had been drinking Lucy’s blood, they

were afraid she was a vampire.

61.- Mina and Jonathan read a strange story in the newspaper.

(a) What had happened to some young children in Hythe?

They had disappeared from their homes.

(b) Where were the children found?

In the old church on the hill.

(c) They had small, red marks on their throats.

2.- What was strange about their throats?

They had to cut off Lucie’s head and her heart.

3.- ‘We have to do three things to stop the vampire,’ said the

Professor. What were the three things they had to do?

Because it was empty.

4.- ‘We have begun our work,’ said Van Helsing. ‘But we have not

finished it.’

(a) How had they begun their work?

They had hammered a stake through Lucy’s heart and they had cut

off her head, now she was dead.

(b) What must they do in order to finish it?

They must destroy Count Dracula.

71 ‘All the papers about his house are in my office in London,’ said

Jonathan

(a) Why did Jonathan have to find the papers?

Because Jonathan could not remember where Dracula’s house was.

(b) Was he successful?

No.

2.- Why did Van Helsing hypnotize Jonathan?

He said that if he hypnotised him, Jonathan mightremember where

Dracula’s house was.

3.- What did the three friends put in the boxes in Dracula’s house?

Holy bread

4.- Back at Jonathan’s house, they found Mina in terrible danger. What

was Dracula making her do?

He was making Mina drink his blood.

5.- ‘I think I can tell you what the Vampire is planning to do,’ Mina told

Van Helsing

(a) How could Van Helsing find out from Mina what Dracula’s plans

were?

He could hypnotise her and ask her about Dracula’s plans.

(b) What did Mina tell Van Helsing?

That Dracula was on a ship, was leaving England.

6 What would happen to Mina if she died before Dracula was

destroyed?

She would be a vampire forever.

81.- ‘You will be in great danger if you come with us,’ Van Helsing

told Mina.

(a) Why would she be in great danger?

Because if she was near Dracula and he called her to him, she would

have to go.

(b) How could Mina help the three friends?

Van Helsing could hypnotise her and she could tell them where was

Dracula.

(c) What did Mina make Jonathan and the two others promise to do?

To kill her if Dracula’s power over her became too strong.

2.-Why did Van Helsing hypnotize Mina early in the morning and in

the evening?

Dracula’s power was not as strong then.

91.- ‘Mina and I will go by land to Castle Dracula,’ said Van Helsing.

What did Van Helsing plan to do when he got to Castle Dracula?

He planned to put holy bread in Dracula’s tomb.

2.- The Professor was afraid. What was happening to Mina on the

journey to Castle Dracula?

She was becoming more and more like a vampire.

3.- Mina and Van Helsing were safe inside the circle.

(a) Could Mina get out of the circle?

No.

(b) What was keeping them safe?

The holy bread.

4.- Why could Dracula not get back inside his tomb?

Because the Professor had put holy bread inside it.

5.- Why did Jonathan and Arthur have to destroy Dracula before it

became dark?

Because when it was dark he could leave his box and move around,

then he would have the power to destroy them.

6.- How was Dracula finally destroyed?

Jonathan pushed the wooden box off the cart, it broke open on the

ground. Jonathan hammered a stake through Dracula’s heart and

Arthur cut off his head, then Dracula’s body became a heap of dust.

Octavio Puig Hernandis

1 st BAT A