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Bram StokerDracula
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1897A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
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Reading Check, Multiple Choice & Short Answer Quizzes
Reading Check questions are designed for in-class review on key plot points or for quick verbal or written assessments. Multiple Choice and Short Answer Quizzes create ideal summative assessments, and collectively function to convey a sense of the work’s tone and themes.
Chapters 1-4
Reading Check
1. In Chapter 1, what does the carriage driver place around the blue flames?
2. When he explores the castle in Chapter 2, what usual household object does Harker notice is strangely absent?
3. When he looks out the window in Chapter 3, what improbable thing does Harker see Dracula doing?
4. When Harker sees Dracula through the window in Chapter 4, what is Dracula wearing?
Multiple Choice
1. In what mountain range is Castle Dracula located?
A) Ural Mountains
B) Alpine Mountains
C) Carpathian Mountains
D) Caucasus Mountains
2. What stops Dracula from advancing toward Harker when Harker cuts himself shaving?
A) Hawthorne
B) a rosary
C) holy water
D) a crucifix
3. How does Dracula characterize the Transylvanian people?
A) warlike
B) naive
C) skeptical
D) hospitable
4. What does Harker find in the chapel in Chapter 4?
A) a dead priest
B) earth-filled boxes
C) wolves
D) the three women
Short-Answer Response
Answer each of the following questions in a complete sentence or sentences. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.
1. On the second day of Harker’s visit, what does the landlady tell him about what day it is and what will happen at midnight?
2. What strange characteristics of Dracula’s does Harker notice on his first evening at the castle?
3. What happens when Dracula finds the three women trying to drink Harker’s blood?
4. What message does Dracula direct Harker to write in the three letters to Mina and his employers?
Chapters 5-9
Reading Check
1. What new kind of document is offered in Chapter 5?
2. What creature does Renfield ask for, saying that it will save him?
3. When Mina wakes in Chapter 8 and finds Lucy gone, where does she find Lucy?
4. What does Jonathan give Mina for safekeeping?
Multiple Choice
1. What is unusual about many of the graves in the Whitby cemetery?
A) They are unmarked.
B) They are covered with stone slabs.
C) They are empty.
D) The bodies are buried upside down.
2. In Chapter 7, who is found on the cliff with a broken neck?
A) Seward
B) Swales
C) Holmwood
D) Renfield
3. In Chapter 8, where does Mina discover Harker is?
A) in Dracula’s castle in Transylvania
B) in a hospital in Budapest
C) in a mental health facility in London
D) in a box on the Demeter
4. Who discovers that Lucy is missing blood?
A) Van Helsing
B) Seward
C) Renfield
D) Swales
Short-Answer Response
Answer each of the following questions in a complete sentence or sentences. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.
1. In Chapter 5, what disappointment is John Seward distracting himself from with his work, and what kind of work does he do?
2. What is discovered aboard the Demeter when it washes ashore?
3. What happens when Renfield escapes in Chapter 8?
4. In Chapter 9, what agreement do Harker and Mina come to about the entries in Harker’s journal?
Chapters 10-15
Reading Check
1. Who unintentionally endangers Lucy by removing flowers from her room?
2. When Van Helsing and Seward go to Hillingham in Chapter 12, whose body do they discover?
3. What does Mina give Van Helsing in Chapter 14?
4. In Chapter 15, what do Seward and Van Helsing discover when they open Lucy’s tomb at night?
Multiple Choice
1. In Chapter 10, whose blood does Lucy first receive via transfusion?
A) Harker’s
B) Holmwood’s
C) Mina’s
D) Van Helsing’s
2. What creature enters Lucy’s room by breaking through the glass of her window?
A) a wolf
B) a black dog
C) a panther
D) a raven
3. In Chapter 13, where are children being abducted?
A) from Van Helsing’s household
B) near the mental hospital
C) from the mansion in Carfax
D) near Lucy’s tomb
4. In Chapter 15, what finally convinces Seward that Van Helsing is right about Lucy?
A) learning that the child of one of his friends has gone missing
B) reading Harker’s journal entries
C) seeing her corpse when they return to her tomb during the day
D) hearing Renfield’s ramblings about his “Queen”
Short-Answer Response
Answer each of the following questions in a complete sentence or sentences. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.
1. What is in the package that arrives for Van Helsing in Chapter 10, and what does he do with the package’s contents?
2. Just before she dies, what physical changes indicate that Lucy has undergone some kind of transformation?
3. What does Van Helsing tell Seward they will need to do to Lucy’s corpse?
4. How does Van Helsing’s reaction to his journal impact Harker?
Chapters 16-21
Reading Check
1. In Chapter 17, where does Seward realize Dracula is staying?
2. Whom does Mina ask for permission to visit in Chapter 18?
3. Where does Harker track the final nine boxes to?
4. Who dies in Chapter 21?
Multiple Choice
1. What is Lucy carrying when she appears in the cemetery in Chapter 16?
A) a broken necklace
B) a dog
C) a communion wafer
D) a child
2. What is Nosferatu?
A) a mental hospital
B) a castle
C) a vampire
D) a vampire’s familiar
3. How do the men scare away the rats in Chapter 19?
A) They wave torches.
B) They blow a dog whistle.
C) They sprinkle holy water.
D) They fire guns.
4. In Chapter 21, why does Mina drink Dracula’s blood?
A) He threatens to kill Harker.
B) He hypnotizes her.
C) She is already a vampire.
D) She is attracted to Dracula.
Short-Answer Response
Answer each of the following questions in a complete sentence or sentences. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.
1. What ambivalent reaction do Van Helsing and Seward have to Lucy in Chapter 16?
2. What does Harker investigate in Chapter 17?
3. What does Mina see out her window in Chapter 19, and how does she react?
4. In Chapter 20, what does Renfield refuse to talk about, and what does this cause Seward to think is true?
Chapters 22-27
Reading Check
1. In Chapter 22, what do the men put into the boxes of dirt?
2. In Chapter 23, why is Dracula weak when he returns to the Piccadilly house?
3. What does Mina expect the men to do if she turns into a vampire?
4. How do Van Helsing’s and Mina’s horses die in Chapter 27?
Multiple Choice
1. What happens when Van Helsing tries to put a communion wafer against Mina’s forehead?
A) It burns her.
B) She bites him.
C) She falls unconscious.
D) It dissolves.
2. In Chapter 24, where do the men plan to catch Dracula?
A) Portsmouth
B) Bucharest
C) Piccadilly
D) Varna
3. In Chapter 25, how does Van Helsing believe that Dracula learned of their plan to catch him?
A) from another of the vampires he controls
B) by reading Harker’s journal
C) through Mina’s mental connection to him
D) by spying on them while in his bat form
4. Who is Petrof Skinsky?
A) a trader
B) a gravedigger
C) a doctor
D) a ship’s captain
Short-Answer Response
Answer each of the following questions in a complete sentence or sentences. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.
1. When Van Helsing places Mina into a trance, what does she hear, and what does it make her suspect?
2. Why does Mina insist on going with the men to try to catch Dracula in Chapter 24?
3. Why does the group split up in Chapter 26?
4. How is Dracula finally destroyed?
Quizzes – Answer Key
Chapters 1-4
Reading Check
1. stones (Chapter 1)
2. mirrors (Chapter 2)
3. crawling down the outside wall of the castle (Chapter 3)
4. Harker’s suit (Chapter 4)
Multiple Choice
Short-Answer Response
1. The landlady tells Harker that it is the eve of Saint George’s Day. She warns him that at midnight, “All the evil things in the world will have full sway” (Chapter 1).
2. Harker notices that Dracula’s hand is unusually cold, that he does not eat, and that he has pointy teeth and ears and hair on his palms. (Chapter 2)
3. Dracula reminds them that they are to leave Harker alone for now. He gives them a sack with a child in it, telling them that they can have Harker when he is done with the man. (Chapter 3)
4. Dracula tells Harker to write that he has left the castle and is on his way home. (Chapter 4)
Chapters 5-9
Reading Check
1. letters (Chapter 5)
2. a cat (Chapter 6)
3. on a bench in the churchyard (Chapter 8)
4. his journal/a notebook (Chapter 9)
Multiple Choice
Short-Answer Response
1. John Seward is the head of a mental health facility. He chooses to throw himself into his work to forget about Lucy, who has decided to marry another man. (Chapter 5)
2. The ship is empty, save for some large boxes, the captain—who is lashed to the mast with a crucifix around his neck—and a large black dog, which immediately escapes. (Chapter 7)
3. Renfield is discovered at a mansion in Carfax, calling out for his “Master.” (Chapter 8)
4. Harker tells Mina that she can read the entries, but that she should not tell him what is in them; instead, she seals the journal, and they agree that keeping it sealed up will be a symbol of their trust. (Chapter 9)
Chapters 10-15
Reading Check
1. her mother/ Mrs. Westenra (Chapter 11)
2. Lucy’s mother’s/ Mrs. Westenra’s (Chapter 12)
3. Harker’s journal (Chapter 14)
4. It is empty. (Chapter 15)
Multiple Choice
Short-Answer Response
1. The package contains garlic flowers, and Van Helsing puts some around Lucy’s neck and rubs some around the windows of her bedroom. (Chapter 10)
2. Lucy’s voice changes, and her teeth are long and sharp. (Chapter 12)
3. He says that they will need to cut off her head and cut out her heart. (Chapter 13)
4. Van Helsing’s acceptance of the truth of the journal entries reassures Harker and helps him recover his memories. (Chapter 14)
Chapters 16-21
Reading Check
1. at the Carfax mansion/ at the mansion next to the mental hospital (Chapter 17)
2. Renfield (Chapter 18)
3. a house in Piccadilly (Chapter 20)
4. Renfield (Chapter 21)
Multiple Choice
Short-Answer Response
1. The men are both attracted to and repulsed by her overt sexuality and seductiveness. (Chapter 16)
2. He investigates the shipping of the boxes from Dracula’s mansion to the chapel. (Chapter 17)
3. Mina sees a line of mist moving along the ground toward her; she closes the window and goes to bed. (Chapter 19)
4. Renfield refuses to talk about souls—this makes Seward think that Renfield actually does feel guilty about the lives he has taken. (Chapter 20)
Chapters 22-27
Reading Check
1. communion wafers (Chapter 22)
2. The sun is up. (Chapter 23)
3. kill her (Chapter 25)
4. They are scared to death by the three vampires from the castle. (Chapter 27)
Multiple Choice
Short-Answer Response
1. She hears water, and this makes her suspect that Dracula is trying to escape across the ocean. (Chapter 23)
2. Mina has developed a psychic connection with Dracula, and she believes that she can use it to help locate him. (Chapter 24)
3. Mina can think of several routes that Dracula might be traveling, and so they split up to cover all of these routes. (Chapter 26)
4. The group catches up with a group of Roma who are pulling Dracula in a cart; they cut Dracula’s throat and stab him in the heart, and he turns to dust. (Chapter 27)
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