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7. A reader of the article could determine that
a. vampires are real people who need serious medical attention
b. Count Dracula was a character who lived in Transylvania

c. Vlad was a ruthless ruler
d. those with erythropoietic protoporphyria have fangs

8. Which of these is a fact?

a. Vlad was a heartless ruler.
b. The novel Dracula was based on Vlad.
c. Interbreeding among eastern European nobles was once common.
d. Count Dracula once executed 40,000 people.

9. The article was created mainly to
a. inform the reader about vampires
b. inform the reader about the effects of erythropoietic protoporphyria
c. persuade the reader that Dracula was based on Vlad

d. share an opinion on why vampires are evil

10. The word Draculaea describes
a. Vlad the Impaler

b. the son of the Devil
c. all of the above
d. none of the above

True or False

Check “T” for true and “F” for false.

a. Count Dracula is a bloodsucking creature. T F

b. Vlad was nicknamed the Impaler. T F

c. Vlad ruled a land called Wallachia about 100 years T F

ago.

d. Sufferers of erythropoietic protoporphyria rarely T F

lived long.

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