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