Littérature étrangère en langue étrangère anglais

Comprehension questions  

1. Tick appropriate answers or fill in the blanks. (3,5 pts)  

a. What is this text?

[] a poem  [] a play script  [X] a first-person narrative [] a third-person narrative  

b. Which character is also the narrator?

 [] Count Dracula  [X] Jonathan Harker  [] Peter Hawkins [] the prince  

c. Where does he come from? Jonathan Harker comes from England.  

d. When is the scene set?

[] in the morning [] at noon [X] in the evening [] at night  

e. Where is the scene set? (2 answers)

[X] in a castle [] in a hotel [] in Hampton Court [] in England [X] in Transylvania  

f. Who owns the property?

[X] Count Dracula  [] Jonathan Harker [] Peter Hawkins [] the prince  

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g. In Transylvania, the owner of the property is … (several answers)

 [] a stranger [X] a well-known person [X] a master [X] a noble  

2. Make up the summary of this document. To do so, choose appropriate sentences from below and list them in chronological order. (2 pts)  

1. Jonathan Harker woke up.

2. He put his clothes on.

3. He went down into the dining-room.

 4. He ate his breakfast.

5. He went into the library.

6. He looked at the books.

7. The Count entered.

8. They talked together.  

3. True or false? Support you answers with evidence form the text. (10 pts)  

a. The dining-room showed the Count’s poverty. False

The Count’s it’s rich and his dining-room show it by the table service who is in gold.  

“The table service is of gold, and beautiful wrought that it must be of immense value.”  

b. There were mirrors everywhere. True

There is not mirrors in the Count’s castle, not even a toilet mirror.  

“But still in none of the rooms is there a mirror. There is not even a toilet glass on my table, and I had to get the little shaving glass from my bag before I could either shave or brush my hair.”  

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c. There were many servants coming and going into the rooms. False

Jonathan Harker didn’t see any servants and don’t find out a bell to call them.  

“When I had done, I looked for a bell, so that I might let the servants know I had finished, but I could not find one.” “I have not yet seen a servant anywhere,”  

d. In the library, all the books were on a table. False

There are two libraries. The first do not have a books, newspapers or magazines.  

“There was absolutely nothing in the room, book, newspaper, or even writing materials,”  

But behind another door Mr. Harker find a sort of library.  

“so I opened another door in the room and found a sort of library.”  

e. There were mostly fiction books in the library. False

No, there were lot of sorts of books, newspapers and magazines all in English.  

“In the library I found, to my great delight, a vast number of English books, whole shelves full of them, and bound volumes of magazines and newspapers.” “The books were of the most varied kind, history, geography, politics, political economy, botany, geology, law, all relating to England and English life and customs and manners.”  

f. The newspapers and magazines were old. True

Indeed.

“A table in the centre was littered with English magazines and newspapers, though none of them were of very recent date”        

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g. Jonathan Harker has the permission to go anywhere in the castle with no exception. False

Jonathan Harker has received the permission to go anywhere in the castle with the exception where the doors were locked.  

“You may go anywhere you wish in the castle, except where the doors are locked.”  

h. Count Dracula doesn’t really like England. False

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