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3 Two of them had dark hair and
eyes that were almost red. The
third one had blonde hair and
light blue eyes. All had bright
white teeth and sensuous lips.
4 They were going to bite him.
5 The Count came in and stopped
them.
6 He gave them a baby to feed on.
7 He could tell from the date on the
last letter he wrote.
8 Earth in large boxes.
9 His eyes were open, but Jonathan
could not tell whether he was
alive or dead.
10 His grey hair had turned dark. His
lips were redder and he was
round with blood.
11 He realized that he was a monster
and that he was helping to bring
him to London where he would
create thousands more monsters
just like himself.
12 He locked him in his room, and he
kept wolves around the castle.
13 Because the Count went around
wearing Jonathan’s clothes.
14 He was going to climb down the
castle wall.
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About the Author
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1 Munich 2 the landlady 3 worried
4 afraid 5 go faster 6 an hour
7 became excited 8 smiled 9 was
going
1 F – He was a sickly child.
2 F – He later asked her to write
them down for him.
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4 F – Mina believes women should
always work for the men in their
lives – Mina is a strong woman
but not independent.
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8 F – Irving sucked his ‘financial
blood’.
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11 F – The book’s Dracula comes
from earlier Gothic books.
12 T
13 F – He has appeared in more
than 200 films.
14 T
CHAPTER ONE
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1B 2A 3D 4D 5D 6C 7D
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1D 2E 3C 4B 5A
CHAPTER TWO
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1 At first he was curious, but then
his feeling of curiosity changed to
horror and disgust.
2 Because it gave him pleasure to
disobey the Count.
1 Jonathan left for the Count’s
castle on 4 May, which was the
eve of St George’s Day.
2 The Count’s coach, which was
pulled by four splendid horses,
arrived.
3 One of Jonathan’s companions on
the coach said, ‘The dead travel
fast’, which is a line from a famous
German poem.
4 The Count’s breath had a terrible
odour, which made Jonathan feel
sick.
5 The Count was going to buy a
property called Carfax, which was
near a lunatic asylum.
6 Jonathan discovered he was a
prisoner in the castle, which was
on a 1000-foot-high precipice.
7 The Count, who could climb down
walls like a lizard, knew English
very well.
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May 5
Finally, Jonathan Harker has arrived!
I have been waiting for this day for
years. Things could not be better. Mr
Harker seems like a perfect young
Englishman – the kind who can
teach me to speak English so that no
one will suspect that I am from
Transylvania. I also think he will be
easy to manipulate. I was even able
to block him from killing me with a
shovel by simply using hypnotic
powers – the power of my eyes. This
makes me believe that I can make
him do whatever I want, and then in
the end I will kill him. First I will dine
on his blood and then I will let my
three wives of evil have some of his
blood too. Then all will be well and I
can go to London and begin my
invasion. In just a few years I will
have thousands and thousands of
vampires that I command. In the end,
I will rule all!
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3 F – He thought that there was
every kind of proof to show that
vampires existed.
4 F – The reports on vampires
created a big sensation.
5 F – All the major capitals of
Europe began to learn about the
belief in vampires.
6 F – Scientists have found that
the description of the vampire is
the description of a decomposing
body.
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9 F – They were written in German.
10 F – The first literary vampires
appeared in the 1730s.
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1 he has written her 2 no
3 Dr Seward 4 all around the world
5 the graveyard
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CHAPTER THREE
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1D 2E 3A 4I 5K 6G 7B 8C
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1 ill 2 be married 3 read his notebook 4 a philosopher and a scientist
5 be dying 6 Amsterdam 7 blood
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CHAPTER FOUR
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1 F – He was usually nice and
respectful.
2 F – He arrived by chance at
Lucy’s home when they were
about to perform the transfusion.
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5 F – He concluded that this was
impossible – otherwise the bed
would have been full of blood.
6 F – She did not understand what
happened to her – that was what
made it so terrifying. She called it
a ‘horror’, ‘a weakness’.
7 F – She even thought that Van
Helsing was joking with her.
8 F – She got much worse.
9 F – Her mother died of fright.
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1 all the evil things in the world
have complete power
2 a nightmare
3 pointed ears and teeth
4 London and the English language
5 reflected in Jonathan’s mirror
6 he saw the blood of a small razor
cut
7 millions of people to feed on
8 more demons like himself
9 the lunatic asylum
10 suck the blood
11 very pale
12 blood transfusions
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A 1 calm 2 rude 3 old-fashioned
4 servant 5 relaxed 6 gradual
7 sadness 8 dark 9 carelessly
10 cowardly 11 strenght 12 rare
13 bright 14 dull 15 far
B 1 brave 2 dim 3 weakness
4 sudden 5 sadness 6 servant
7 advanced 8 rare 9 sharp
10 pale 11 accurately 12 common
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1 recorded 2 interestingly
3 harmless 4 successful 5 British
6 unsuccessful 7 pathologist
8 deadly 9 unlucky 10 lucky
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Vampire Bats
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Fruit.
About 1,000 species.
In the American tropics.
They are only 8 centimetres long.
Using echolocation, or sonar.
For seeing.
A protein in the bat’s saliva which
prevents blood from coagulating.
8 Because otherwise they would be
too heavy to fly.
9 Because, although the bite is not
particularly dangerous, there is the
danger of getting rabies.
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Medicine: veins, transfusion,
narcotic, fever, ill
Animals and how they move and
sound: spider, flapping, bat, howl,
moth, fox
Vampire things: coffin, garlic,
punctures, stake
Head and face: forehead, lips, throat,
chin
To stay with Lucy during the night.
16 September.
The morning of 18 September.
She told him to kiss her.
Nothing – he was too shocked.
That he would protect Arthur and
give her peace.
CHAPTER FIVE
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1 V, I 2 V, J 3 L, A 4 L, B 5 V, E
6 J, D 7 J, F 8 V, G 9 A, C 10 V, H
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1C 2A 3A 4B 5C 6A 7D
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1 but 2 one 3 turned 4 that
5 both 6 called 7 could 8 who
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CHAPTER SEVEN
1 may have made 2 let me read
3 what I thought 4 courageous
enough 5 was not 6 we should
marry 7 what is wrong 8 could not
have come
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1E 2G 3A 4J 5H 6N 7I 8C
9 M 10 F 11 D 12 B
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1F 2G 3C 4B 5A 6D
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CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER EIGHT
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2 F – She couldn’t – she was
blocked because the circle was
made with the Sacred Wafer.
3 F – She herself was part vampire
so she knew that they would no
attack her.
4 F – They considered her an ally,
‘a sister’.
5 F – He found the courage when
he thought that he was going to
give them peace.
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9 F – He realized that they had no
official documents only personal
writings.
10 F – No, they found it almost
impossible to think it was the
place of such great suffering.
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4; 3 asylum 4 scream
6; 5 mind 6 tricked
2; 7 newspapers 8 graveyard
9; 9 sunset 10 throat 11 scar
3; 12 tomb 13 pointed 14 drive
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G 7; 16 carriage
H 8. 17 wagon 18 ground
I 1; 19 punctures 20 kiss 21 peace
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1 was always sick 2 the sea/Dublin
Bay 3 drive stakes in the bodies
4 a little girl 5 in the north of
Ireland 6 the blood of cows
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7 see them again 8 a red cloth
9 sport 10 taking long fast walks
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Victorian Villains,
Monsters and Fears
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1 The fact that they play with the
fear of invasion of Britain.
2 The fear of foreigners who
contaminate the purity of the
‘British race’.
3 When the British in foreign lands
adopted native morals, ideals and
customs.
4 A character from the novel Trilby
by George du Maurier, who was
one of Stoker’s models for Count
Dracula.
5 Erik from The Phantom of the
Opera by Gaston Leroux.
6 The fear of the very close ties that
men have to animals.
7 A character from The Strange Case
of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by R. L.
Stevenson; he represents the evil
side of Dr Jekyll.
8 The immortal white queen of an
African tribe, from the novel She
by H. Rider Haggard.
9 The fear of invasion, of ‘reverse
colonization’, of the animal inside
of each one of us, of the ‘new
woman’.
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1 Choose the best answer - A, B, C or D.
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Jonathan thought that the crucifix the landlady gave him was
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a good way of protecting him from vampires.
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not part of a true religion.
C
something that would make his mother happy.
D
part of the tradition of the Church of England.
2 The Count did not come out to shake his hand until Jonathan had
entered the castle because
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Jonathan had to enter the castle of his own free will.
B
the Count could not leave his castle.
C
the Count was afraid of the wolves outside.
D
the Count was not certain who Jonathan was.
3 A horrible anger appeared on the Count’s face when he saw Jonathan
shaving because
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the Count thought that shaving mirrors were a sign of vanity.
B
the Count hated the crucifix around Jonathan’s neck.
C
the Count realized that Jonathan had understood that
he had no reflection.
D
the Count had seen the blood coming out of Jonathan’s cut.
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6 The Count left the castle with boxes filled with
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papers and documents about Carfax.
B
Jonathan’s clothes.
C
earth.
D
English books.
7 Lucy Westenra’s fiancé is
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Arthur Holmwood
B
Dr Seward
C
Quincey P. Morris
D
Dr Van Helsing
8 Mina was not surprised when Lucy began sleepwalking because
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she knew the Count had the power to make people sleepwalk.
B
she knew that hot weather often made people sleepwalk.
C
she too often sleepwalked.
D
Lucy sleepwalked when she was younger.
2 Answer the following questions.
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What did Professor Van Helsing give Lucy to keep the vampire away?
4 The Count wore Jonathan’s clothes when he went to post Jonathan’s
letters
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because he had no good clothes of his own.
B
so the post office would accept the letters.
C
because he was afraid of the people in the town.
D
so that people would think that Jonathan did the terrible things
he was going to do.
2 What, in truth, was the ‘bloofer lady’?
5 Jonathan noticed that horrible things happened in the Count’s castle
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only when the Count was there.
B
only when he fell asleep.
C
only when the Count was away.
D
only during the night.
6 What were the Count’s powers?
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3 Why did Mina read Jonathan’s diary?
4 What did Lucy and the children who had been taken away by the
bloofer lady have in common?
5 Why did Renfield want Mina to leave the asylum?
7 How could Van Helsing read the Count’s mind?
8 Why did Mina feel safe from the vampire women?
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1 garlic flowers
2 a woman vampire
3 Because she wanted to know the
cause of his brain fever.
4 They all had punctures on their
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5 Because he liked her and did not
want the Count to attack her.
6 He could change shapes and
control the fog.
7 By hypnotising Mina at dawn and
at sunset.
8 Because she had almost become a
vampire.