Dracula Study Questions

Chapter 1

  1. What is paprika hendl?
  2. What is the name of the hotel that Dracula sends Jonathan to?
  3. How do the innkeepers react when they find out where the narrator is going?
  4. What did they do when the narrator asked about Dracula?
  5. What happens on the eve of St. George’s Day?
  6. What does the innkeeper’s wife give to the narrator and what does she say?
  7. How does the narrator feel at this point?
  8. What is robber steak?
  9. When the narrator left what gesture did the townspeople make toward him? Why?

Chapter 2

  1. What does Jonathan do for a living?
  2. Who is Mr. Hawkins?
  3. Why doesn’t Mr. Hawkins go on this trip?
  4. Describe Count Dracula.
  5. What are “the children of the night?”
  6. Why does Dracula want Jonathan to work with him on his English intonation?
  7. What are the blue flames?
  8. Why don’t the peasants go out to get the treasures?
  9. Name and describe the estate that Dracula buys in London.
  10. Describe the incident when Jonathan cuts himself shaving.
  11. What does the Count do when he sees the blood?
  12. What repels Dracula?’=
  13. What does Jonathan find strange about the Count?
  14. What does Jonathan realize at the end of Chapter 2? Why?

Chapter 3

  1. What idea is confirmed when Jonathan finds Dracula making his bed?
  2. What does Jonathan see the Count do that repulses him?
  3. What does the Count give to the three women who try to seduce Jonathan?
  4. What does Jonathan keep above his bed? Why?

Chapter 4

  1. How does Jonathan think he got back into his bed? Why does he think that?
  2. The Count asks Jonathan to write three letters. What should each one say?
  3. What day does Jonathan think he is going to die? Why?
  4. Who are the Szgany?
  5. What do they do with Jonathan’s letters?
  6. What does Jonathan discover is missing on May 31st?
  7. “Monster give me back my child.” Describe the scene and what happens to the woman.
  8. What does Jonathan find when he crawls out the window?
  9. What does Dracula do with Jonathan’s clothes?
  10. Who controls the wolves? How do you know this?
  11. What change does Jonathan notice in Dracula the second time he enters his room?
  12. What does Jonathan do at the end of Chapter 4?

Chapter 5

  1. What does Mina do for a living?
  2. What modern inventions/techniques is Mina learning?
  3. How many proposals does Lucy get?
  4. Name the men who propose to Lucy.
  5. Who does Lucy want to marry?
  6. What does Dr. Seward specialize in?
  7. What is the name of the patient that Dr. Seward has taken an interest in?

Chapter 6

  1. Describe the narration of the novel thus far.
  2. What is Mina worried about in this chapter?
  3. What does Renfield love?
  4. What has he been collecting?
  5. What does he keep in a box?
  6. Why does Renfield say that he eats the fly?
  7. What happens to the sparrows? How do you know?
  8. What has Lucy begun to do?
  9. Who is Arthur Holmwood’s father?