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