Carlin High School

A EN MISC

Chapters 26 and 27:

1)What does Van Helsing learn from Mina in her hypnotic state.?

1. 1. She hears waves lapping the side of the ship.
   2. She hears oars and there is a gleam of light and air blowing.
   3. She hears men and horses running.
   4. She hears nothing; she has lost her connection to the Count.

2. What seems to be happening to Mina’s hypnotic trances?
   1. She is becoming more difficult to hypnotize.
   2. She is becoming violent under hypnosis and attacks Van Helsing.
   3. She is not able to come out of the trances easily once she is put under.
   4. She is refusing to be hypnotized; Van Helsing suspects that she is turning.

3. What had the Romanians on the crew of the Czarina Catherine requested several times of their captain?
   1. The Romanians requested more food.
   2. The Romanians wanted to leave the box at each port they passed.
   3. The Romanians wanted to throw the box overboard.
   4. The Romanians requested time to pray.

4. What becomes of Petrof Skinsky who has claimed the Count’s box from the ship?
   1. He laughed in Van Helsing’s face because the Count had outsmarted the men.
   2. After accepting a bribe, he told Van Helsing where the box was being taken.
   3. Petrof Skinsky never claimed the box; someone else did.
   4. He was found with his throat torn out.

5. What does Mina do for which Van Helsing and the others heartily congratulated her?
   1. She refused to give in to vampirism, even though she was strongly tempted.
   2. She logically figured out the route that Dracula was taking to his castle.
   3. She forced herself to eat a full meal with the men.
   4. She transcribed all of the journals with her typewriter to replace the burnt ones.

6. What single word does Mina hesitate to write in her journal?
   1. “drink”
   2. “pray”
   3. “death”
   4. “vampire”

7. How does the group divide its members in order to best capture the Count?
   1. Arthur and Jonathan go by steamboat; Quincey and Dr. Seward go on horses; Mina and Van Helsing go straight to the castle.
   2. Arthur and Jonathan go on horses; Quincey and Dr. Seward go by steamboat; Mina and Van Helsing go straight to the castle.
   3. Arthur and Jonathan go by steamboat; the others wait in Varna.
   4. Mina and Van Helsing go by steamboat; the other go on horses.

8. How does Lord Godalming manage to trick boat owners to allow him to search their vessels along the river?
   1. He speaks fluent Romanian and he tells them that he is looking for a lost child.
   2. He flies the Romanian flag and boat owners assume he is a government official.
   3. He tells the boat owners that he is trying to break up a smuggling ring.
   4. He tells the boat owners that a madman has escaped and may be hiding aboard.

9. What seems to arouse the superstitions of the people that Van Helsing and Mina meet along their journey?
   1. They see Mina’s scar.
   2. Van Helsing is wearing a garlic flower in his lapel.
   3. Van Helsing is asking too many questions about Castle Dracula.
   4. They see the marks on Mina’s throat.

10. How has Mina’s behavior changed since she and Van Helsing separated from the others?
    1. She is more relaxed and is getting stronger.
    2. She is very depressed.
    3. She is very weak and not sleeping.
    4. She is sleeping more, not writing in her journal, and knows the way to the Castle.

11. What precaution does Van Helsing take when he and Mina are forced to sleep outside for the night?
    1. He finds a cave so that he only has to worry about guarding them at the opening.
    2. He sleeps with a loaded rifle to keep wild animals away.
    3. He draws a circle around her and uses the Host to create a boundary.
    4. He creates a circle of salt around himself and Lucy.

12. What does Van Helsing see in the mist during the night?
    1. gleaming red eyes
    2. three voluptuous women
    3. wolves
    4. a large bat