DRACULA
Chapters 13 & 14 – Study Guide
1. What do Dr. Seward and Van Helsing notice about Lucy’s body when they go to pay their respects? She has more color on her face than when she did when she was alive. (page 224)
2. What does Van Helsing want to do with Lucy’s body? He wants to take off her head and take out her heart. (page 225)
3. What happens when the maid sits by Lucy’s body during the night? Lucy’s crucifix was stolen in the night. (page 227)
4. Who is Lord Godalming? Arthur is Lord Godalming. (page 228)
5. What request does Van Helsing make of Arthur regarding the Westenra estate? Most of the estate would be given to Arthur. (page 228)
6. As Jonathan Harker walks down Piccadilly what does he see that causes him to suddenly go pale? He sees the Count himself, except he is much younger looking. (page 236)
7. After Jonathan Harker’s sudden relapse, what does Mina declare it is time for her to do? She decides that it is time to open the parcel and read Jonathan’s diary, so she knows what’s happened to him. (page 236)
8. What secret do Dr. Seward, Van Helsing, and Quincy Morris vow to keep from Arthur? They all decided that they would never tell Arthur that they had given Lucy blood transfusions as well. Arthur had said that his blood in her veins had truly made her his bride, and they didn’t want to ruin it for him. (page 240-241)
9. What strange occurrences begin taking place in Hampstead not long after Lucy’s funeral? Children have been disappearing for spans of time, and then coming home with small wounds in their necks, similar to Lucy’s. (page 243)
10. What does Mina learn that upsets her terribly? She reads Jonathan’s diary and learns about all of the terrible things that happened to him. (page 244)
11. What does Mina plan to do with Jonathan’s diary? She decided to transcribe Jonathan’s entire diary from shorthand so that anyone else can read it if need be. (page 245)
12. After reading Mina’s letters to Lucy, Dr. Van Helsing requests a visit with Mina. What specific event does he ask Mina to share in detail? He wants to know about Lucy’s sleep-walking. (page 249)
13. What does Mina allow Van Helsing to read? She allows him to read her accounts of the sleepwalking in her diary. (page 250)
14. What change comes over Jonathan after reading Van Helsing’s note about the diaries? He suddenly feels strong and unafraid. (page 256-257)
15. Name at least three of the unexplained mysteries of the natural world Van Helsing tells Dr. Seward to make him accept the cause of Lucy’s death and the wounds on the children of Hampstead. Methuselah lived 969 years, yet Lucy couldn’t live a day. He believes in hypnosis, but won’t believe mind-reading. All the spiders live to be small and short-living, but one spider lived on the top of the Spanish church for hundreds of years and grew huge. (page 262)
16. How does Van Helsing explain the bite marks found on the children of Hampstead Heath? When Dr. Seward is suspicious about how all these people died, Van Helsing goes into this spiel about all these phenomenon that occur in the natural world, and he asks how he can believe them but not this. (page 262)