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Reading Questions

Choose the best answer.

1. When was the novel titled Dracula written?

a. 100 years ago
b. 1897
c. 1456

d. 1462

2. What information is given first in the article?
a. Vlad the Impaler is said to have executed 40,000 people.

b. Interbreeding among eastern European nobles led to a rare disease
known as erythropoietic protoporphyria.
c. Vlad ruled a land called Wallachia from 1456 to 1462.
d. Doctors then could only treat the condition by locking the patients away
during the day

3. What would happen to those who have erythropoietic protoporphyria
when they are exposed to sunlight?
a. Their skin and eyes would turn red.

b. Their teeth would turn red.
c. Their skin would crack and bleed.
d. all of the above

4. According to the article, what is erythropoietic protoporphyria?
a. A disease one receives when he or she is bitten by a vampire.
b. A disease one gets through generations of inbreeding.

c. A contagious disease one gets through someone else who has it.
d. A common disease most children had at the time.

5. The stories of Count Dracula could have come from

a. Vlad the Impaler
b. children who had a disease called erythropoietic protoporphyria
c. stories of patients who had to drink blood at night
d. all of the above

6. Which sentence uses the word stakes the same way it is used in the
article?
a. Bobby loves to eat stakes.
b. Joan of Arc was sentenced at the stake.

c. We used stakes to support our fence.
d. The company doubled its stakes.

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