Comprehension "Where does Dracula come from?": Madrid 2007

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WHERE DOES DRACULA COME FROM?

1. Are the following statements TRUE or FALSE? Copy the evidence from the text. No marks are given for only TRUE or FALSE.

a. Bram Stoker was familiar with Eastern European stories because of his readings.

• TRUE: Stoker is known to have consulted books on legends from Transylvania, Moldavia, and the Carpathians at the local library at Whitby and later in the British Library in London.

b. When Stoker’s Dracula arrived in England, he had the appearance of a terrible black bat.

• FALSE: When his ship was damaged in a terrible storm, Dracula – the vampire – jumped to land at Whitby in the shape of a huge dog.

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