Vlad the Impaler - Test
Vlad the Impaler
  • 1. What was Vlad the Impaler's preferred method of execution?
A) Impalement
B) Burning at the stake
C) Beheading
D) Hanging
  • 2. Vlad the Impaler was a member of which royal family?
A) House of Tudor
B) House of Habsburg
C) House of Drăculești
D) House of Bourbon
  • 3. Which fictional character is often associated with Vlad the Impaler?
A) Sherlock Holmes
B) Frankenstein
C) Dracula
D) Tarzan
  • 4. During what century did Vlad the Impaler live?
A) 18th century
B) 20th century
C) 15th century
D) 12th century
  • 5. Where is Vlad the Impaler believed to be buried?
A) Westminster Abbey
B) Snagov Monastery
C) St. Michael's Church
D) Bran Castle
  • 6. Which Ottoman Sultan did Vlad the Impaler initially support before their conflict?
A) Mehmed IV
B) Suleiman the Magnificent
C) Murad II
D) Osman I
  • 7. What military order was Vlad the Impaler inducted into?
A) Order of the Garter
B) Knights Templar
C) Order of the Dragon
D) Teutonic Order
  • 8. Vlad the Impaler ruled predominantly over which region?
A) Wallachia
B) Hungary
C) Transylvania
D) Moldova
  • 9. In what year did Vlad the Impaler's father, Vlad II Dracul, become a member of the Order of the Dragon?
A) 1456
B) 1431
C) 1444
D) 1428
  • 10. What is Vlad III commonly known by due to his method of execution?
A) Vlad the Builder, for constructing many fortresses.
B) Vlad the Liberator, for freeing Wallachia from Ottomans.
C) Vlad the Impaler, because he impaled his enemies.
D) Vlad the Peacemaker, due to his diplomatic skills.
  • 11. Why were Vlad and his younger brother Radu held as hostages?
A) As a punishment for supporting John Hunyadi.
B) To secure their father's loyalty to the Ottoman Empire.
C) Because they attempted to overthrow their father.
D) Due to accusations of treason against Wallachia.
  • 12. What action did Vlad take against the Sultan's envoys?
A) He imprisoned them in Hungary.
B) He executed them by hanging.
C) He had them captured and impaled.
D) He sent them back to Mehmed II with a peace treaty.
  • 13. What was Vlad's relationship with the Transylvanian Saxons?
A) He formed a strong trade alliance with them.
B) They remained neutral during his conflicts.
C) They were his loyal allies throughout his reign.
D) He came into conflict with them as they supported his opponents.
  • 14. Where was Vlad held captive from 1463 to 1475?
A) In Constantinople.
B) In Târgoviște.
C) In Moldavia.
D) In Visegrád.
  • 15. What religious conversion was Vlad reputedly forced to make for his release?
A) He remained an Eastern Orthodox Christian.
B) From Judaism to Roman Catholicism.
C) From Islam to Eastern Orthodoxy.
D) From Eastern Orthodoxy to Roman Catholicism.
  • 16. Who helped Vlad force Basarab Laiotă to flee Wallachia in 1476?
A) The Ottoman Empire provided support.
B) Hungarian and Moldavian troops assisted him.
C) He managed to do it without any external help.
D) Transylvanian Saxons helped him.
  • 17. What is the primary modern association with the name 'Dracula'?
A) A Wallachian prince
B) A vampire
C) An Ottoman ruler
D) A member of the Order of the Dragon
  • 18. What does the name 'Dracul' mean in medieval Romanian?
A) 'Vlad the Dragon'
B) 'The Impaler'
C) 'The devil'
D) 'The Dragon Slayer'
  • 19. In what language is Dracula the genitive form of Dracul?
A) Latin
B) Slavonic
C) Romanian
D) Ottoman Turkish
  • 20. What does 'dracul' mean in modern Romanian?
A) 'The dragon'
B) 'The noble'
C) 'The devil'
D) 'The ruler'
  • 21. What sobriquet is associated with Vlad III in Romanian historiography?
A) 'The Noble'
B) 'Dracula'
C) 'Vlad Țepeș' (or 'Vlad the Impaler')
D) 'The Dragon Slayer'
  • 22. On what date did Mircea the Shepherd refer to Vlad III as 'the Impaler'?
A) 1 January 1500
B) 25 December 1476
C) 1 April 1551
D) 31 October 1485
  • 23. How did Vlad III sign his letters in the late 1470s?
A) 'The Impaler'
B) 'Kazıklı Voyvoda'
C) 'Dragulya' or 'Drakulya'
D) 'Vlad Dracul'
  • 24. What fortress did the Ottomans capture on the Danube during Vlad's absence?
A) Giurgiu
B) Bucharest
C) Sibiu
D) Cluj-Napoca
  • 25. Where did Nicholas Vízaknai urge Vlad to meet him?
A) Wallachia
B) Transylvania
C) Kosovo
D) Ottoman Empire
  • 26. By what date was Vlad forced to flee to the Ottoman Empire?
A) 18 October 1448
B) 17 October 1448
C) 7 December 1448
D) September 1448
  • 27. Who wrote to Vlad urging him to come to meet them until John Hunyadi returned from the war?
A) Nicholas Vízaknai
B) Vladislav II
C) Murad II
D) John Hunyadi
  • 28. Who supported Bogdan II's ascension to the throne of Moldavia?
A) Matthias Corvinus
B) John Hunyadi
C) Peter III Aaron
D) Elizabeth Szilágyi
  • 29. Who murdered Bogdan II in October 1451?
A) Vladislav II
B) John Hunyadi
C) Michael Szilágyi
D) Peter III Aaron
  • 30. Who dethroned Peter Aaron in Moldavia after Vlad's return?
A) Stephen
B) John Hunyadi
C) Michael Szilágyi
D) Alexăndrel
  • 31. Who recorded that hundreds or thousands were executed at Vlad's order?
A) Elizabeth Szilágyi
B) John Hunyadi
C) Matthias Corvinus
D) Laonikos Chalkokondyles
  • 32. Who accused Vlad of being unfaithful to the king of Hungary?
A) Elizabeth Szilágyi
B) Ladislaus Hunyadi
C) Matthias Corvinus
D) John Hunyadi
  • 33. Who was elected king of Hungary on 24 January 1458?
A) Dan III
B) John Hunyadi
C) Ladislaus Hunyadi
D) Matthias Corvinus
  • 34. Who allowed Wallachian boyars to settle in Transylvania?
A) John Hunyadi
B) Michael Szilágyi
C) Ladislaus Hunyadi
D) Matthias Corvinus
  • 35. Who did Dan III accuse Vlad of siding with?
A) The Ottomans
B) The Saxons
C) The Hungarian king
D) The Moldavians
  • 36. Who recorded that Vlad refused to pay homage to the sultan in an unspecified year?
A) Tursun Beg
B) Giovanni Maria degli Angiolelli
C) Thomas Katabolinos
D) Konstantin Mihailović
  • 37. In what year did Vlad turn against the Ottoman Empire according to Tursun Beg?
A) 1462
B) 1461
C) 1459
D) 1458
  • 38. Who was sent by Mehmed II as an envoy to Wallachia to order Vlad to come to Constantinople?
A) Thomas Katabolinos (Yunus bey)
B) Isaac
C) Hamza
D) Mahmud Pasha
  • 39. How many Turks and Bulgarians did Vlad claim to have killed during his campaign?
A) 10,000
B) 15,000
C) 23,884
D) 30,000
  • 40. Where did the Ottoman fleet land in May 1462?
A) Brăila
B) Târgoviște
C) Nikopol
D) Giurgiu
  • 41. What strategy did Vlad adopt when outnumbered by the Ottoman army?
A) Scorched earth policy
B) Direct confrontation
C) Guerrilla warfare
D) Negotiated surrender
  • 42. During which night did Vlad attempt to capture or kill the sultan?
A) 20–21 August 1462
B) 18–19 July 1462
C) 16–17 June 1462
D) 15–16 May 1462
  • 43. Where did Vlad withdraw after being deserted by more Wallachians?
A) Bucharest
B) Constantinople
C) The Carpathian Mountains
D) Moldavia
  • 44. Who admitted that the reason for Vlad's imprisonment was never clarified?
A) Matthias Corvinus
B) Florescu
C) Antonio Bonfini
D) Pope Pius II
  • 45. How long was Vlad held at Visegrád?
A) 20 years
B) 14 years
C) 7 years
D) 10 years
  • 46. In which city did Vlad buy a house known as Drakula háza?
A) Pécs
B) Sibiu
C) Brașov
D) Buda
  • 47. Which fortress did Stephen Báthory and Vlad force the sultan to lift the siege of?
A) Srebrenica
B) Pécs
C) Târgu Neamț
D) Bucharest
  • 48. What did Dinu V. Rosetti find during excavations in the Monastery of Snagov?
A) Vlad's intact body
B) No tomb under the supposed tombstone.
C) A letter from Matthias Corvinus
D) A treasure chest
  • 49. Who was Vlad the Impaler's eldest son?
A) Mihnea
B) Vlad Drakwlya
C) An unnamed second son
D) A third son who claimed Wallachia
  • 50. What was the title of Michael Beheim's poem about Vlad?
A) The Despot of Wallachia
B) Tales of Dracula
C) The Cruelty of Vlad
D) Von ainem wutrich der heis Trakle waida von der Walachei
  • 51. Who was the papal legate that wrote to Pope Pius II about Vlad's brutal acts?
A) Antonio Bonfini
B) Niccolo Modrussiense
C) Sebastian Münster
D) Gabriele Rangoni
  • 52. Who recorded the rumor about Vlad catching rats and sticking them on wood?
A) Niccolo Modrussiense
B) Sebastian Münster
C) Michael Beheim
D) Gabriele Rangoni
  • 53. In what language were early works containing stories about Vlad's cruelty published in the Holy Roman Empire?
A) Old Church Slavonic
B) Low German
C) Hungarian
D) Latin
  • 54. How many Russian manuscripts preserved the text of 'The Tale about Voivode Dracula'?
A) Less than 5
B) More than 20
C) Exactly 10
D) Over 50
  • 55. Who is commonly attributed with writing 'The Tale about Voivode Dracula'?
A) Fyodor Kuritsyn
B) Ivan III of Moscow
C) Mehmed II
D) Caligula
  • 56. How do the Skazanie anecdotes compare to the German stories in terms of length?
A) The Skazanie anecdotes are longer than the German stories
B) They are of equal length to the German stories
C) There is no comparison made between their lengths
D) They are shorter than the German stories
  • 57. What is the name of the first Romanian epic poem focusing on Vlad?
A) The Ballad of Wallachia
B) The Chronicles of Impalement
C) Vlad's Triumphs
D) Țiganiada (Gypsy Epic)
  • 58. Which Romanian poet dedicated a historic ballad to Vlad?
A) Theodor Aman
B) Mihai Eminescu
C) Ion Budai-Deleanu
D) Dimitrie Bolintineanu
  • 59. What did Emily Gerard's 1885 article focus on that influenced Bram Stoker?
A) German stories about a wicked man
B) Political observations about Wallachia and Moldavia
C) Transylvanian superstitions, including blood-sucking vampires
D) The life and times of Vlad the Impaler
  • 60. What origin did Stoker attribute to Dracula because he knew about Attila the Hun?
A) Germanic origin
B) Romanian origin
C) Székely origin
D) Hungarian origin
  • 61. What discrepancy exists in the depiction of Vlad's hair color?
A) His hair was depicted as blonde in all accounts.
B) Modrussa mentioned black hair, but the portrait shows fair hair.
C) Both sources describe his hair as red.
D) The portrait and Modrussa both agree on black hair.
  • 62. In which castle is a copy of Vlad's portrait featured?
A) St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna
B) Ambras Castle at Innsbruck
C) Buda Castle
D) Belvedere in Vienna
  • 63. What physical feature of Vlad is noted as making his eyes appear threatening?
A) A large lower lip
B) Bushy black eyebrows
C) Swollen nostrils
D) A thin and reddish face
  • 64. What physical trait connected Vlad's head to his body?
A) A bull's neck
B) A long chin
C) A short torso
D) A slender neck
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