Chapter Summaries

Question 1

Chapter 1

Answer 1

Jonathan Harker’s journal
- Describing his journey through eastern Europe from Budapest to the
Carpathians. Makes notes of food, people, setting. Harker is naive and trying to apply rationality to superstition. everything is deceiving

Question 2

Chapter 2

Answer 2

Harker meets Dracula, assists plan to move to London. Dracula’s reflection is not visible in mirror, Harker cuts his face. Harker refers to himself as a prisoner

Question 3

Chapter 3

Answer 3

Harker explores rooms and sees locked doors. Meets the 3 vampire brides.

Question 4

Chapter 4

Answer 4

Dracula sleeps in box. Harker attempts to smuggle a message. Dracula begins his journey to London. Harker escapes

Question 5

Chapter 5

Answer 5

Mina awaits Harker. Lucy receives 3 proposals and accepts Arthur’s.

Question 6

Chapter 6

Answer 6

Mina goes to Whitby. Lucy sleepwalks. Seward learns about Renfield’s diet. Mr Swales talks about Russian ship coming towards Port.

Question 7

Chapter 7

Answer 7

Ship arrives. Dracula’s boxes are unloaded. Captain recounts horror at sea. Dracula is present and killing people.

Question 8

Chapter 8

Answer 8

Lucy has a wound on her neck. Boxes are moved to Carfax. Mina receives new of Harker. Renfield escapes but is recaptured.

Question 9

Chapter 9

Answer 9

Mina and Harker marry. Renfield escapes again. Van Helsing is consulted about Lucy.

Question 10

Chapter 10

Answer 10

Arthur and Seward give Lucy a blood transfusion. Van Helsing decorates room with garlic.

Question 11

Chapter 11

Answer 11

Mrs Westenra removes garlic from the room. Van Helsing gives Lucy blood transfusion. A wolf breaks into Lucy’s room. Mrs Westenra dies.

Question 12

Chapter 12

Answer 12

Quincey gives blood to Lucy. Lucy’s teeth change. Lucy dies.

Question 13

Chapter 13

Answer 13

Van Helsing laughs at Lucy’s funeral. Children with strange wounds spotted. Talk of the ‘bloofer lady’.

Question 14

Chapter 14

Answer 14

Mina reads Harker’s journal. Both meet Van Helsing, who believes that Lucy is responsible for the attack of the children.

Question 15

Chapter 15

Answer 15

Van Helsing and Seward visit Lucy’s empty tomb and plan to save ‘undead’ Lucy.

Question 16

Chapter 16

Answer 16

Undead Lucy is destroyed by Arthur. Plan is created to track down Dracula.

Question 17

Chapter 17

Answer 17

Mina transcribes Seward’s diary. Harker finds location of the boxes.

Question 18

Chapter 18

Answer 18

Renfield reveals knowledge of Lucy’s death. Mina is excluded from the quest to defeat Dracula. Quincey sees a bat and shoots it out of paranoia.

Question 19

Chapter 19

Answer 19

The gang go to Carfax. 21 boxes have been removed. Mina’s vampire dream.

Question 20

Chapter 20

Answer 20

Boxes are located. Arthur uses his lord title to gain information on Dracula’s Piccadilly house.

Question 21

Chapter 21

Answer 21

Renfield reveals he invited Dracula to the asylum. Dracula persuades him with the promise of blood filled insects. Dracula forces Mina to drink his blood. Renfield dies.

Question 22

Chapter 22

Answer 22

The truth is revealed to Mina. Seward covers up Renfield’s death. Dracula’s Carfax lair is destroyed.

Question 23

Chapter 23

Answer 23

Unsuccessful ambush of Dracula: he escapes. Van Helsing hypnotises Mina and reveals that Dracula is on a ship.

Question 24

Chapter 24

Answer 24

Men prepare to chase Dracula across Europe. Mina changes and becomes untrustworthy.

Question 25

Chapter 25

Answer 25

Vow to kill Mina if necessary.

Question 26

Chapter 26

Answer 26

Pursuit of Dracula. His only box left has been taken off the ship. Petroff Skinsky takes possession of the box and is later found in a coffin with his throat ripped out.

Question 27

Chapter 27

Answer 27

Brides try to get Mina on their side but fail due to the holy circle. Van Helsing destroys lair and the vampire women. Dracula is destroyed and Quincey dies.