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