INTERPRETAÇÃO DE TEXTO - INGLÊS

 Read the text:

Did Dracula really exist?

Yes and No.Dracula is a book written by the Irish author, Bram (Abraham) Stoker (1847-1912) who told the story of an evil count from Transylvania (now part of Romania). The nobleman could turn into a vampire bat. He sucked people´s blood by biting them on the their necks. His victims became his salves.
Dracula was a figment of Stoker's vivid imagination, but in the 1400s there was a cruel ruler of Transylvania known as Vlad the Impaler. He got this nickname because ha had awful habits: he drove stakes through the bodies of his enemies and left them to die. No doubt Stoker had Vlad in mind when he wrote the book.


Vocabulary:
evil - bad; diabolic
count - nobleman
to turn into - to transform
figment - invention, products of imagination
ruler - person who governs and controls a country
impaler - perforator, piercer
awful - terrible



1) According to the text: *



A) Bram Stoker invented the name Dracula

B) Bram Stoker didn't' invent the name Dracula

C) Dracula didn't have slaves

D) Dracula became a ruler in the 1400s



2) The book writte by Bram Stoker is: *



A) a poem

B) a fiction

C) a novel

D) an adventure



3) All the alternatives below are correct, except: *



A) Dracula was probably inspired in Vlad the Impaler

B) Vlad the Impaler really lived six hundred years ago

C) Bram Stoker met Vlad the Impaler

D) Bram Stoker was an Irish author



4) Mark the corrective alternative: *



A) Bram Stoker died at the age of 65

B) Vlad became a ruler in 1400

C) Romania bought Transylvania

D) Stoker gave a nickname to Vlad



5) Mark the correct verb sequence: *



A) to write - written - written

B) to become - became - became

C) to drive - drove - driven

D) to get - got - gatten