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