Dracula - Test
Dracula
  • 1. Who is the author of the novel 'Dracula'?
A) H.P. Lovecraft
B) Mary Shelley
C) Edgar Allan Poe
D) Bram Stoker
  • 2. What is the first name of the character Van Helsing in 'Dracula'?
A) Abraham
B) Victor
C) Lucy
D) Jonathan
  • 3. What is the name of Dracula's castle in the novel?
A) Castle Black
B) Castle Dracula
C) Castle Ravenloft
D) Castle Bran
  • 4. What is the name of the ship that brings Dracula to England?
A) Endeavour
B) Mayflower
C) Demeter
D) Titanic
  • 5. What does Dracula transform into to travel at night?
A) Bat
B) Wolf
C) Raven
D) Mist
  • 6. What does Mina Harker use to fend off Dracula's mind control?
A) Crucifix
B) Silver crucifix
C) Rosary
D) Crossbow
  • 7. Who is engaged to Mina Harker in 'Dracula'?
A) Dr. Seward
B) Jonathan Harker
C) Arthur Holmwood
D) Quincey Morris
  • 8. What is the name of the mental asylum where Renfield is confined?
A) Carfax
B) Arkham
C) Briarcliff
D) Bedlam
  • 9. Who is Lucy Westenra engaged to at the start of the novel?
A) Quincey Morris
B) Arthur Holmwood
C) Jonathan Harker
D) Dr. Seward
  • 10. How does Dracula gain entry into Mina Harker's bedroom?
A) Through the window
B) Through the door
C) Through the chimney
D) Through the floorboards
  • 11. In what year was 'Dracula' published?
A) 1917
B) 1907
C) 1887
D) 1897
  • 12. What is the primary narrative technique used in 'Dracula'?
A) Stream of consciousness
B) First-person narration
C) Letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles
D) Soliloquy
  • 13. Who is Jonathan Harker's fiancée in 'Dracula'?
A) Lucy Westenra
B) Caroline Harker
C) Mina Murray
D) Renfield
  • 14. What is Count Dracula's plan when he moves to England?
A) To become king
B) To plague the seaside town of Whitby
C) To marry Mina Murray
D) To purchase a castle in London
  • 15. What is used to protect Lucy from vampires?
A) Garlic flowers
B) Holy water
C) Silver bullets
D) A crucifix
  • 16. What is Mina's connection to Dracula after being attacked?
A) She has a faint psychic connection that helps track him
B) She loses her memory
C) She turns into a vampire
D) She becomes his servant
  • 17. What happens to Mina after Dracula's death?
A) She becomes the new Count Dracula
B) She marries Quincey Morris
C) Her vampiric curse is lifted
D) She moves to Transylvania
  • 18. What does Jonathan Harker do seven years after the events of 'Dracula'?
A) He becomes a vampire hunter
B) He moves to Transylvania
C) He marries Lucy Westenra
D) He writes a note stating that he and Mina have a son named Quincey
  • 19. Who is suggested as an inspiration for Count Dracula?
A) Dr. Frankenstein
B) Captain Ahab
C) Vlad the Impaler and Elizabeth Báthory
D) Sherlock Holmes
  • 20. Where did Bram Stoker find the name 'Dracula'?
A) In an ancient manuscript
B) In Whitby's public library
C) In a dream
D) From a friend
  • 21. What structural similarity do some reviewers note in 'Dracula'?
A) Similarity with Pride and Prejudice
B) Similarity with Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White
C) Similarity with Moby Dick
D) Similarity with Jane Eyre
  • 22. What is a significant issue regarding the novel's copyright?
A) It was lost during World War II
B) It expired after 50 years
C) It was never copyrighted
D) It was incorrectly filed in the United States, making it public domain there
  • 23. How many times has Dracula appeared in various forms of media?
A) Under 50 times
B) 100 times
C) Over 700 times
D) 500 times
  • 24. What is the significance of 'Dracula' in Gothic fiction?
A) It is considered an average work
B) It is not related to Gothic fiction
C) It is regarded as a seminal work
D) It is seen as a minor contribution
  • 25. Where was Bram Stoker born?
A) Clontarf, Dublin
B) London, England
C) New York City, USA
D) Budapest, Hungary
  • 26. How many children did Bram Stoker have?
A) Three
B) Nine
C) Seven
D) Five
  • 27. What was Bram Stoker's role at the Lyceum Theatre?
A) Director
B) Playwright
C) Business manager
D) Stage actor
  • 28. Who did Bram Stoker marry in 1878?
A) Mary Shelley
B) Florence Balcombe
C) Elisabeth Miller
D) Jane Austen
  • 29. Which actor's performance review by Stoker led to their friendship?
A) Henry Irving
B) Charles Dickens
C) Oscar Wilde
D) William Shakespeare
  • 30. What was Bram Stoker more closely identified with during his lifetime?
A) Romance novels
B) The theatre
C) Science fiction
D) Poetry
  • 31. How many books had Bram Stoker published by the time of his death in 1912?
A) 18
B) 25
C) 10
D) 30
  • 32. Who wrote Bram Stoker's obituary in The Daily Telegraph?
A) Thomas Hardy
B) Oscar Wilde
C) Charles Dickens
D) Hall Caine
  • 33. Which author wrote 'Vampyres: Lord Byron to Count Dracula'?
A) Clive Leatherdale
B) Christopher Frayling
C) Raymond T. McNally
D) Leslie S. Klinger
  • 34. What does the name 'Dracula' mean according to Stoker's source?
A) Shadow
B) Wolf
C) Devil
D) Night
  • 35. Which publication described Stoker as 'the Edgar Allan Poe of the nineties'?
A) An anonymous writer
B) Saturday Review
C) The Bookseller
D) The Daily Telegraph
  • 36. When did publishers recognize 'Dracula's' copyright status?
A) The 1960s
B) The 2000s
C) The 1920s
D) The 1980s
  • 37. Who played Mina during the stage adaptation reading of 'Dracula'?
A) Bram Stoker
B) Florence Stoker
C) Charlotte Stoker
D) Edith Craig
  • 38. What is the title of the book that provides a centennial edition of 'Dracula'?
A) 'The New Annotated Dracula'
B) 'Dracula: A Centennial Edition'
C) 'Vampyres: Lord Byron to Count Dracula'
D) 'Beyond Dracula: Bram Stoker's Fiction and Its Cultural Context'
  • 39. What is the title of the chapter included in the 1979 edition edited by McNally and Florescu?
A) The Un-Dead
B) Dracula's Guest
C) Vampire Chronicles
D) Count Dracula's Journey
  • 40. What was the cost of 'Dracula' upon its initial publication in May 1897?
A) 10 shillings
B) 6 shillings
C) 8 shillings
D) 5 shillings
  • 41. Which Irish folklore figure is suggested as an inspiration for Dracula?
A) The revenant Abhartach
B) Finn McCool
C) Leprechauns
D) Cú Chulainn
  • 42. What historical event is noted as influencing Stoker's writing of 'Dracula'?
A) The American Civil War
B) The Great Famine (1845–1852)
C) World War I
D) The Industrial Revolution
  • 43. According to Brian Aldiss, what does Count Dracula represent in the novel?
A) A representation of wealth
B) A cure for madness
C) The initial disease
D) A symbol of purity
  • 44. How many chapters did Stoker's outline of 'Dracula' have in February 1892?
A) 15
B) 27
C) 30
D) 12
  • 45. Which publication praised 'Dracula's' capacity to entertain but criticized its horror content?
A) Vanity Fair
B) The Daily Telegraph
C) The Manchester Guardian
D) Saturday Review
  • 46. Who provides a postcolonialist analysis of Dracula, describing it as representing 'reverse colonisation'?
A) Stephen Arata
B) Patricia McKee
C) Daniel Renshaw
D) Halberstam
  • 47. What was the original title of Bram Stoker's 'Dracula'?
A) Transylvanian Tales
B) Count Dracula
C) The Un-Dead
D) Vampire Chronicles
  • 48. Who did Stoker intend to include as a psychical investigator in his original plans for 'Dracula'?
A) Lucy Westenra
B) Singleton
C) Van Helsing
D) Mina Murray
  • 49. Which genre does 'Dracula' belong to?
A) Romantic literature
B) Gothic literature
C) Science fiction
D) Historical fiction
  • 50. What format did Stoker originally intend for 'Dracula' to be written in?
A) Detective story
B) Narrative poem
C) Stage play
D) Epistolary novel
  • 51. For the first thousand sales of 'Dracula', how much did Stoker earn?
A) No royalties
B) A large sum
C) Moderate royalties
D) Half royalties
  • 52. What creature was supposed to slay one of the vampire hunters in Stoker's original notes?
A) Ghoul
B) Zombie
C) Ghost
D) Werewolf
  • 53. Where did Stoker likely write most of the manuscript for 'Dracula'?
A) Dublin, Ireland
B) London, England
C) Cruden Bay, Scotland
D) Whitby, England
  • 54. Which word was explicitly avoided in Stoker's earliest outline of 'Dracula'?
A) Vampire
B) Werewolf
C) Count
D) Harker
  • 55. Who was one of the original characters in Stoker's notes that confronted 'Count Wampyr'?
A) Van Helsing
B) Jonathan Harker
C) Max Windshoeffel
D) Dr. Seward
  • 56. What geographical feature replaces Radcliffe's Apennine Mountains in 'Dracula'?
A) The Alps
B) The Andes
C) The Pyrenees
D) The Carpathian Mountains
  • 57. How does Daniel Renshaw describe the antisemitism present in Dracula?
A) Explicit and direct
B) Non-existent
C) Semi-subliminal
D) Completely subliminal
  • 58. What social concern in late Victorian England is associated with vampirism in Bram Stoker's 'Dracula'?
A) Industrialization
B) Colonialism
C) Contagious disease
D) Poverty
  • 59. How long did it take Stoker to write 'Dracula'?
A) Five years
B) One year
C) About three years
D) Six months
  • 60. What creature did Stoker associate with Dracula that was not as prevalent in earlier vampire fiction?
A) Bats
B) Wolves
C) Snakes
D) Ravens
  • 61. Which company published the American edition of 'Dracula' in 1899?
A) Macmillan Publishers
B) Archibald Constable and Company
C) Doubleday & McClure
D) Harcourt Brace
  • 62. What was Stoker's attitude towards Henry Irving according to Miller?
A) Fear and animosity
B) Disgust
C) Indifference
D) Adulation
  • 63. Which critic uses vampires as a metaphor in 'Das Kapital'?
A) John Maynard Keynes
B) Karl Marx
C) Adam Smith
D) Friedrich Engels
  • 64. What is the reason given in the novel for vampires having no reflection?
A) Vampires are made of shadows
B) Mirrors show the human soul
C) It's a curse placed upon them
D) They have supernatural powers
  • 65. In which year were the earliest dated notes for 'Dracula' written by Stoker?
A) 1888
B) 1893
C) 1892
D) 1890
  • 66. In what year did Raymond T. McNally and Radu Florescu publish 'In Search of Dracula'?
A) 1980
B) 1972
C) 1969
D) 1995
  • 67. Who edited 'The New Annotated Dracula'?
A) Clive Leatherdale
B) Raymond T. McNally
C) Leslie S. Klinger
D) Christopher Frayling
  • 68. Which publication mentioned that 'Dracula' was recognized as a horror writer's stroke of genius?
A) The Daily Telegraph
B) Arthur Conan Doyle
C) Saturday Review
D) Gabriel Ronay
  • 69. Which critic suggests that Dracula represents the death of feudalism?
A) Seamus Deane
B) Terry Eagleton
C) Raphaël Ingelbien
D) Bruce Stewart
  • 70. Which publication found Dracula's disdain for garlic unintentionally funny?
A) Saturday Review
B) The Manchester Guardian
C) Vanity Fair
D) The Daily Telegraph
  • 71. Which religious symbol is NOT mentioned as a weapon against Dracula?
A) Consecrated hosts
B) Garlic
C) Holy water
D) Crucifixes
  • 72. Which Victorian taboo does the Count break according to theorists?
A) Public displays of affection
B) Marital fidelity
C) Non-procreative sexuality
D) Monogamous relationships
  • 73. Which film first introduced the idea that sunlight is fatal to Dracula?
A) Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
B) Nosferatu (1922)
C) Dracula (1931)
D) Dracula Untold (2014)
  • 74. What literary work is considered vampire literature's 'centrepiece' according to Wendy Doniger?
A) 'Carmilla'
B) 'Varney the Vampire'
C) 'Dracula'
D) 'Frankenstein'
  • 75. Who is considered a literary progenitor of Count Dracula?
A) John William Polidori's 'The Vampyre'
B) Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
C) Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven
D) H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos
  • 76. Where was the original setting of Stoker's 'Dracula' before it was changed to Transylvania?
A) Scotland
B) Styria
C) Ireland
D) London
  • 77. In Bram Stoker's 'Dracula', which character is described by Christopher Herbert as more of a priest than a scientist?
A) Lucy Westenra
B) Van Helsing
C) Jonathan Harker
D) Mina Murray
  • 78. What is one unique attribute that Stoker invented for his vampires?
A) Sunlight being fatal
B) They must be invited into one's home
C) Their aversion to garlic
D) Having no reflection in mirrors
  • 79. Which theory is used to characterize vampirism in the novel?
A) Psychoanalysis
B) Darwinian evolution
C) Social degeneration theory
D) Classical economics
  • 80. Who are the authors of 'The Critics' Count: Revisions of Dracula and the Postcolonial Irish Gothic'?
A) Clive Leatherdale
B) Calvin W. Keogh
C) Christopher Frayling
D) Raymond T. McNally and Radu Florescu
  • 81. Who does Michael Valdez Moses compare Dracula to?
A) Winston Churchill
B) Oliver Cromwell
C) Charles Stewart Parnell
D) Queen Victoria
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