Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Brasov, Romania (CNN) -- The ruins of Poienari Castle sit high on a mountain peak with a seemingly never-ending vista looking out over deep gorges, charcoal-gray cliffs and mountain streams.

It's a natural paradise, but we did not make the trip to this castle just for the awesome view. Visitors come for its connection to history's most famous vampire, Dracula.

The famous book and the ensuing movies are fiction, but since Bram Stoker published his novel in 1897, the world has been looking to Transylvania (in modern central Romania) as "Count Dracula's" home.

And there is a bit of truth to it. Stoker never visited Eastern Europe, but his famous character is based, in part, on a real 15th-century prince.

Vlad Dracula lived from 1431 to about 1476 and ruled Wallachia, which was actually south of Transylvania. As military leader, he was a hero to his people, and he has a place in the Romanian National Military Museum.

Another museum explains the name "Dracula" is actually a title from the knightly order of the dragon, whose mission was to defend Christianity. Documents he signed "Vlad Dracula" still exist.

A nickname often associated with him is Tepes, which means impaler, and comes from his brutal application of capital punishment by skewering bodies on a wooden spike.

Visiting Dracula's castle

Poienari Castle is not on the main tourist route. In fact, it's pretty hard to get there.

Public transportation is infrequent, and the big tourist town in the region, Brasov, is hours away.

1. who is the author?
2. who did he write about?
3. where did the character live?
4. did the author ever go there?
5. was a real person the inspiration for the character?
6. who?
7. when did he live?
8. do we know the year he was born?
9. what was it?
10. when did he die?
11. what was his occupation?
12. of where?
13. where is that?
14. East of it?
15. was he called something else?
16. what?
17. does it give the meaning of that?
18. what does it mean?
19. why was he called that?
20. a metal one?
21. what was it made of?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Bram Stoker
2. Count Dracula
3. Transylvania
4. No
5. in part
6. Vlad Dracula
7. the 15th-century
8. Yes
9. 1431
10. about 1476
11. he was a prince
12. Wallachia
13. near Transylvania
14. No
15. Yes
16. Tepes
17. Yes
18. impaler
19. because he skewered bodies on a spike.
20. No
21. wood

Question: CHAPTER XIV.

"My beautiful! my beautiful! that standest meekly by, With thy proudly arch'd and glossy neck, and dark and fiery eye--

"Thus, thus I leap upon thy back, and scour the distant plains: Away! who overtakes me now, shall claim thee for his pains."

_The Arab to his Steed_.

Bulstrode seemed happy to meet me, complaining that I had quite forgotten the satisfaction with which all New York, agreeably to his account of the matter, had received me the past spring. Of course, I thanked him for his civility; and we soon became as good friends as formerly. In a minute or two, Mary Wallace joined us, and we all repaired to the breakfast-table, where we were soon joined by Dirck, who had been detained by some affairs of his own.

Herman Mordaunt and Bulstrode had the conversation principally to themselves for the first few minutes. Mary Wallace was habitually silent; but Anneke, without being loquacious, was sufficiently disposed to converse. This morning, however, she said little beyond what the civilities of the table required from the mistress of the house, and that little in as few words as possible. Once or twice I could not help remarking that her hand remained on the handle of a richly-chased tea-pot, after that hand had performed its office; and that her sweet, deep blue eye was fixed on vacancy, or on some object before her with a vacant regard, in the manner of one that thought intensely. Each time as she recovered from these little _reveries_, a slight flush appeared on her face, and she seemed anxious to conceal the involuntary abstraction. This absence of mind continued until Bulstrode, who had been talking with our host on the subject of the movements of the army, suddenly directed his discourse to me. 1. Who was excited?
2. To see someone?
3. Did they become close again?
4. Who arrives?
5. How long after?
6. What did they do?
7. Then who showed up?
8. Was he on time?
9. Who talked most of the time at first?
10. Anybody else?
11. Was somebody usually quiet?
12. Who?
13. Was somebody else being quiet?
14. Was she usually?
15. Was she behaving strangely?
16. In what way?
17. Anything else?
18. Did she recover?
19. What happened then?
20. Who addresses him then? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Bulstrode
2. Yes
3. Yes
4. Mary Wallace
5. a minute or two
6. repaired to the breakfast-table
7. Dirck
8. No
9. Herman Mordaunt
10. Bulstrode
11. Yes
12. Mary Wallace was
13. Yes
14. No
15. Yes
16. her hand remained on the handle
17. her eye was fixed on vacancy
18. Yes
19. a slight flush appeared on her face
20. Bulstrode does

Q: (CNN)Hawaii is poised to become the first state in the nation to prohibit the sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products to anybody under age 21.

The state's legislature on Friday passed a bill raising the minimum legal age -- currently 18 -- to buy tobacco or e-cigarettes. The bill will now go before Gov. David Ige, whose signature would make it law in Hawaii as of January 1, 2016.

Forty-six U.S. states permit the sale of tobacco to anyone 18 or older, while Alabama, Alaska, New Jersey and Utah require customers to be at least 19. Dozens of cities and towns, including New York, have already raised the minimum legal age for tobacco purchases to 21.

"This bold step will reduce smoking among young people, save lives and help make the next generation tobacco-free," said Matthew L. Myers, president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, in a prepared statement.

"Increasing the sale age to 21 will reduce tobacco use among youth and young adults, age groups when nearly all smoking begins and that are heavily targeted by the tobacco industry," he said.

It was not clear Monday whether Ige would sign the bill, although on Friday he approved legislation banning the the use of e-cigarettes in all locations where smoking is illegal. A spokeswoman for the governor told CNN in an email that he would need some time to review the bill.

The legislation comes after a report last month from the Institute of Medicine that said barring people under age 21 from buying cigarettes would have significant public health benefits. Setting the minimum age at 21 nationwide would result in nearly a quarter-million fewer premature deaths and 50,000 fewer deaths from lung cancer among people born between 2000 and 2019, the report estimated.

1. Forty-six
2. four
3. Alabama, Alaska, New Jersey and Utah
4. 21
5. Hawaii
6. The state's legislature
7. Friday
8. 18
9. David Ige
10. 2016
11. January
12. president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
13. the governor would need some time to review the bill
14. no
15. email
16. nearly a quarter-million
17. 50,000
18. lung cancer
19. between 2000 and 2019
20. no

Numbered questions:
1. How many states allow sale of tobacco to people 18 or older?
2. How many require one to be 19 years old?
3. What are those states?
4. What age has the city of New York raised it to?
5. What state will be the first to ban sale of cigarettes to anyone under 21?
6. What body passed this bill?
7. On what day?
8. What is the age for legal buying of tobacco before this bill came to be?
9. Who is the governor of Hawaii?
10. In what year did he sign this bill into law?
11. What month?
12. What position does Matthew Myers hold?
13. What did Ige's spokeswoman tell CNN?
14. Did she tell them this by a phone call?
15. Through what then?
16. How many premature deaths will this bill prevent according to one institute?
17. And how many deaths from a certain type of cancer?
18. What sort of cancer?
19. Among people born in what years?
20. Were e-cigarettes mentioned in regards to this bill?