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Research on the Internet the films and television shows that have been made about Dracula.
Make a chronological list of these films.
Include the following:
 When it was made?
 Who were the actors?
 Was the story the same as the book?
View one of the films or t.v. shows and write your own reaction to it. How much does it mirror
or deviate from the novel?
Complete each worksheet below. Answer the questions in complete sentences please.
Dracula: Chapters 1-4
Vocabulary Words:
Ambiguous
havoc Carpathians solicitor nocturnal imperious ribald
Coquetry nebulous phantom Count precipice
Short Answers
1. What happens to the woman who comes to the castle looking for her child?
2. How long does the Count want Harker to stay at the castle?
3. What do the blue lights that Harker saw indicate?
4.Where does Harker find the Count?
5.What causes the driver to stop along the road?
6.Where is Jonathan Harker going?
7.What happens on the eve of St. George's Day?
8.What does Harker notice about the Count's eating habits?
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9.Who visits Harker at night?
10.What does Harker discover about the castle?
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11.What does Dracula consider to be a "foul bauble of man's vanity"?
12.What item is Harker missing?
13.What does Dracula want Harker to put in the three letters he has asked him to send?
14.Name two things peculiar about Dracula's appearance.
15.What warning does Dracula give him about the castle at night?
16.What is Harker's purpose for going on this trip?
17."For his mother's sake", what does the woman give to Jonathan?
18.How many servants work for the Count?
19.What does Harker plan to do to the Count?
20.What calms Dracula after he sees the blood coming from Harker's shaving cut?
21.What does Harker have to protect himself?
22.Why couldn't Mr. Hawkins make the trip?
23.What is in the bag that the Count gives the three women?
24.What does Harker see the Count do that is unusual of humans?
25.What do we learn about the Count regarding mirrors?
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Matching
Match each definition with a word from the vocabulary list.
_______________26. mountains in central Europe
_______________27. capable of being understood in more than one way
_______________28. European nobleman
_______________29. hazy, indistinct
_______________30. arrogant, domineering
_______________31. steep cliff
______________32. flirting
______________33. something that is apparent in sense but has no substantial existence
______________34. a legal official of city or state
______________35.active at night
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36. Why does a Crucifix bother the Count?
37. Why does Dracula want to transport himself to England?
38. Who are the women staying with Dracula?
39. What effect does the story being told via journal entries have on the plot?
Dracula: Chapters 5-7
Vocabulary Words
Wrath
manifest mattock
Bairns homicidal maniac
diabolical
emphatic
viaduct skeptical
schooner
Short Answers
1. How does Mina try to help Lucy?
2. Who is Renfield?
3.What shape does Dracula assume to get off of the ship?
4.How many proposals has Lucy received?
5.What is in the cargo of the ship?
6.What happens to Renfield's birds?
7.What happens to Dracula's solicitor?
8.Who is Mina Murray?
9.What happens to the sea captain?
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10. What has Lucy been doing at night?
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Matching
Match each definition with a word from the vocabulary list.
________________14. a long elevated roadway consisting of a short span of piers
________________15. devilish
________________16.fore-and-after rigged sailing ship
________________17. uttered with emphasis
________________18. a doubting state of mind
________________19. children
________________20. a list of passengers or an invoice of cargo for a ship
________________21. lunatic, madman
________________22. a digging tool with features of an axe
________________23. violent anger
Dracula: Chapters 8-12
Vocabulary Words
Curates
implored apropos languid haggard
Paroxysm metaphysician pathology prostration
Arrears
grog boudoir
Short Answers
1. Where has Jonathan been all of this time?
2.What does Mina think caused the wound on Lucy's neck?
3.Why doesn't the garlic work for Lucy?
4.Why doesn't Mina inform Lucy's mother of the night's events?
5.What does Lucy want to let in the window?
6.Why has he been gone so long?
7.What does Jonathan give to Mina?
8.What has changed regarding Lucy's appearance?
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9.How does Van Helsing know that Lucy is going to die?
10. What happened to Renfield?
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11.Why doesn't Reinfeld want bugs anymore?
12.Why does Lucy want to kiss Arthur?
13.Who gives Lucy her fourth blood transfusion?
14.What does Mina do with the gift?
15.Where does Van Helsing go and why?
16.Why is Mina worried about being found out so late at night?
Matching
Match each definition with a word from the vocabulary list.
________________17. having a worn or emaciated appearance
________________18. a person who studies the nature of things
________________19. the state of being behind in obligations
________________20. total exhaustion or weakness
________________21. by the way
________________22. a sudden sharp attack
________________23. alcoholic liquor
________________24. sluggish in character or disposition
_________________25. the study of disease
________________26.begged
Dracula: Chapters 13-17
Vocabulary Words
Obsequious
intestacy
fresco
verbatim
Hue
malign
asylum
desecration
Short Answers
1. Why does Van Helsing insist that they return again to the cemetery?
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2. What does he tell Seward that he plans to do with Lucy's body?
3.In Hyde Park, what terrifies Jonathan?
perplexity
indignation
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4.What project does Mina undertake?
5.Describe Lucy's appearance when they see her in the cemetery.
6.What do the children call the person who is taking the children?
7.What disrupts his plan?
8.Who do they save in the cemetery?
9.What does Van Helsing do to get Seward to believe him?
10. How does Mr. Seward keep his diary?
11.Van Helsing confronts Seward in Chapter 14 with what fact?
12.What happens to Lucy's appearance after death?
13.How does Van Helsing reassure Mina and Jonathan?
14.What does Van Helsing do as a precaution?
15.How do Mina and Jonathan become acquainted with Van Helsing?
16.What does she do when she sees Arthur?
17.Where is Dracula's chapel?
18.What does Mina confide in Van Helsing?
19.What is Van Helsing's ultimate purpose and where is this purpose revealed?
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20.What unusual things does Van Helsing do before Lucy's funeral?
21.What is the content of the article in the "Westminster Gazette"?
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Matching
Match each definition with a word from the vocabulary list.
_______________22. to violate the sacredness of something
_______________23.an institution for the insane
_______________24.to defame
_______________25.word for word
_______________26.the art of painting on fresh plaster
_______________27.color
_______________28.not disposed of by will
_______________29.excessively attentive
_______________30.anger aroused by something unjust
_______________31.mentally disturbing or puzzling
32. Due to all the simultaneous deaths, why doesn't the group suspect wrong doing right away?
33. Does Lucy find peace?
34. Why does Dracula need so many homes?
Dracula: Chapters 18-22
Vocabulary Words
Demurred
Pabulum
Malodorous
Suffusion
auspices
diligence
miasma
myriads
equilibrium
gaol
lugubrious
abasement
entity
amenable
debauch
Short Answers
1. How do they get rid of the rats?
2.How was Renfield a "hero"?
3.Through Jonathan's further detective work, what is discovered?
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4.Who do they find with Mina?
5.What does Mina plan to do if she starts to hurt others?
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6.Why does Quincy shoot a bullet into their meeting room?
7.How is the Vampire's earth sterilized?
8.What is their plan to catch Dracula?
9.What terrible news do they find out?
10.What happens when Van Helsing touches a host to Mina's forehead?
11.What happened to Renfield?
12.Where is the group going in Chapter 19?
13.How does Renfield treat Mina?
14.What weapons do they have?
15.Why is Van Helsing so concerned about what happened to all the boxes of earth?
Matching
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Match each definition with a word from the vocabulary list.
__________________16. to voice opposition or cause delay
__________________17.ill-smelling
__________________18.soft, digestible food
__________________19.indefinitely large numbers
__________________20.to spread over in the manner of a fluid or light
__________________21.jail
__________________22.compliant; willing
__________________23.characterized by steady and earnest effort
__________________24.something with separate and real existence
__________________25.mournful to an exaggerated degree
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26. Which character proves them self to be most brave in the story thus far AND why do you think so?
27. Discuss the symbolism of the soil in the boxes.
Dracula: Chapters 23-27
Vocabulary Words
Alchemist
Fulcrum
entente
infamy
polyglot
laconic
occult
flogging
Short Answers
1. Why does Van Helsing hope they can catch up with Dracula?
2.What is she able to tell her friends?
3.How does Arthur prove to be a real asset?
4.How do they plan to intercept his ship?
5.How does Dracula manage to avoid them?
6.What happens to Count Dracula?
7.What have they learned?
8.How does Van Helsing protect himself?
9.What kind of man was Dracula in life?
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10.What ship is Dracula aboard?
11.Why does Mina want to go with them?
toil
beacon
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12.What happened to the box that was aboard the ship?
13.What promise does Mina extract?
14.What does Mina want Van Helsing to do to her and why?
15.Who does Van Helsing see in the woods?
Matching
Match each definition with a word from the vocabulary list.
______________16. an understanding providing for joint action
______________17.the support on which a lever turns
______________18.beating with a whip or cane
______________19.to work hard
______________20.speaking or writing several languages
______________21.not revealed, secret
______________22.evil reputation brought on by something grotesquely criminal
______________23.a guiding or warning signal
______________24.a chemistry involving changing base metals into gold
______________25.sparing of words
Create an Original Work in the Epistolary Genre
One interesting aspect of Stoker’s Dracula is the form in which the story is told, which is
through journal and diary entries, letters, memoranda, telegrams, and so on. This means that
there is no central narrator with a single point of view, but rather a group of narrators whose
personal observations combine to form an overall impression of what’s happening. This type of
literary genre is known as the “epistolary” novel – epistolary meaning to be contained in or
carried on by letters.
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Create a short "epistolary conversation" of your. You can create your own 500-word plot
scenario. But, here are few basic criteria for your epistolary story:
1. At least three characters;
2. Each character should speak (or communicate) at least twice;
3. The characters should use at least three different forms of communication (which could
include more modern forms such as texting, posting on a Facebook wall, Twitter, and so
on).
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Here is just one possible scenario you could use:
It is 9:10 AM on an average Wednesday, and you’ve just arrived in your biology class. You’re
excited because today is the day you and your classmates will be dissecting a fetal pig. However,
you’ve also noticed that one of your classmates (you supply the name), a recent transfer to your
school, has been acting strangely in the week leading up to the dissection. You are also a bit
worried because one of your best friends has been coming to class late for the last couple of
days, looks a bit pale, and seems to be ignoring your texts. And are you just imagining things, or
does your biology teacher, Mr. Van Helsing, look more anxious than normal? What is that
yellowed and fraying piece of paper poking out of his briefcase? Over the next couple of days,
some strange things – things that make the fetal pig dissection seem downright trivial – start
happening. What are they?
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