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.