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