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  • 1. Who is the author of the novel 'Dracula'?
A) Edgar Allan Poe
B) Bram Stoker
C) Mary Shelley
D) H.P. Lovecraft
  • 2. What is the first name of the character Van Helsing in 'Dracula'?
A) Abraham
B) Victor
C) Jonathan
D) Lucy
  • 3. What is the name of Dracula's castle in the novel?
A) Castle Ravenloft
B) Castle Black
C) Castle Dracula
D) Castle Bran
  • 4. What is the name of the ship that brings Dracula to England?
A) Demeter
B) Mayflower
C) Titanic
D) Endeavour
  • 5. What does Dracula transform into to travel at night?
A) Raven
B) Wolf
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) Arthur Holmwood
C) Quincey Morris
D) Jonathan Harker
  • 8. What is the name of the mental asylum where Renfield is confined?
A) Arkham
B) Carfax
C) Briarcliff
D) Bedlam
  • 9. Who is Lucy Westenra engaged to at the start of the novel?
A) Quincey Morris
B) Dr. Seward
C) Jonathan Harker
D) Arthur Holmwood
  • 10. How does Dracula gain entry into Mina Harker's bedroom?
A) Through the window
B) Through the door
C) Through the chimney
D) Through the floorboards
  • 11. In what year was 'Dracula' published?
A) 1887
B) 1897
C) 1917
D) 1907
  • 12. What is the primary narrative technique used in 'Dracula'?
A) Stream of consciousness
B) Soliloquy
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) Lucy Westenra
D) Mina Murray
  • 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 purchase a castle in London
D) To become king
  • 15. What is used to protect Lucy from vampires?
A) Silver bullets
B) Garlic flowers
C) A crucifix
D) Holy water
  • 16. What is Mina's connection to Dracula after being attacked?
A) She has a faint psychic connection that helps track him
B) She turns into a vampire
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 becomes the new Count Dracula
C) She moves to Transylvania
D) Her vampiric curse is lifted
  • 18. What does Jonathan Harker do seven years after the events of 'Dracula'?
A) He moves to Transylvania
B) He marries Lucy Westenra
C) He becomes a vampire hunter
D) He writes a note stating that he and Mina have a son named Quincey
  • 19. Who is suggested as an inspiration for Count Dracula?
A) Dr. Frankenstein
B) Captain Ahab
C) Sherlock Holmes
D) Vlad the Impaler and Elizabeth Báthory
  • 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 Jane Eyre
D) Similarity with Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White
  • 22. What is a significant issue regarding the novel's copyright?
A) It was lost during World War II
B) It expired after 50 years
C) It was incorrectly filed in the United States, making it public domain there
D) It was never copyrighted
  • 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 seen as a minor contribution
C) It is not related to Gothic fiction
D) It is considered an average work
  • 25. Where was Bram Stoker born?
A) New York City, USA
B) Budapest, Hungary
C) London, England
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) Business manager
B) Stage actor
C) Playwright
D) Director
  • 28. Who did Bram Stoker marry in 1878?
A) Jane Austen
B) Mary Shelley
C) Elisabeth Miller
D) Florence Balcombe
  • 29. Which actor's performance review by Stoker led to their friendship?
A) Henry Irving
B) Oscar Wilde
C) William Shakespeare
D) Charles Dickens
  • 30. What was Bram Stoker more closely identified with during his lifetime?
A) Romance novels
B) The theatre
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. Which author wrote 'Vampyres: Lord Byron to Count Dracula'?
A) Leslie S. Klinger
B) Christopher Frayling
C) Clive Leatherdale
D) Raymond T. McNally
  • 34. What does the name 'Dracula' mean according to Stoker's source?
A) Devil
B) Shadow
C) Wolf
D) Night
  • 35. Which publication described Stoker as 'the Edgar Allan Poe of the nineties'?
A) Saturday Review
B) The Daily Telegraph
C) The Bookseller
D) An anonymous writer
  • 36. When did publishers recognize 'Dracula's' copyright status?
A) The 1980s
B) The 1920s
C) The 1960s
D) The 2000s
  • 37. Who played Mina during the stage adaptation reading of 'Dracula'?
A) Charlotte Stoker
B) Edith Craig
C) Florence Stoker
D) Bram Stoker
  • 38. 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) 'Dracula: A Centennial Edition'
C) 'Vampyres: Lord Byron to Count Dracula'
D) 'The New Annotated Dracula'
  • 39. What is the title of the chapter included in the 1979 edition edited by McNally and Florescu?
A) Dracula's Guest
B) The Un-Dead
C) Vampire Chronicles
D) Count Dracula's Journey
  • 40. What was the cost of 'Dracula' upon its initial publication in May 1897?
A) 5 shillings
B) 10 shillings
C) 8 shillings
D) 6 shillings
  • 41. Which Irish folklore figure is suggested as an inspiration for Dracula?
A) Leprechauns
B) Finn McCool
C) Cú Chulainn
D) The revenant Abhartach
  • 42. What historical event is noted as influencing Stoker's writing of 'Dracula'?
A) The Industrial Revolution
B) The American Civil War
C) World War I
D) The Great Famine (1845–1852)
  • 43. According to Brian Aldiss, what does Count Dracula represent in the novel?
A) A representation of wealth
B) The initial disease
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) 27
B) 15
C) 12
D) 30
  • 45. Which publication praised 'Dracula's' capacity to entertain but criticized its horror content?
A) The Daily Telegraph
B) The Manchester Guardian
C) Saturday Review
D) Vanity Fair
  • 46. Who provides a postcolonialist analysis of Dracula, describing it as representing 'reverse colonisation'?
A) Patricia McKee
B) Daniel Renshaw
C) Stephen Arata
D) Halberstam
  • 47. What was the original title of Bram Stoker's 'Dracula'?
A) Transylvanian Tales
B) Vampire Chronicles
C) The Un-Dead
D) Count Dracula
  • 48. Who did Stoker intend to include as a psychical investigator in his original plans for 'Dracula'?
A) Van Helsing
B) Mina Murray
C) Lucy Westenra
D) Singleton
  • 49. Which genre does 'Dracula' belong to?
A) Romantic literature
B) Historical fiction
C) Gothic literature
D) Science fiction
  • 50. What format did Stoker originally intend for 'Dracula' to be written in?
A) Detective story
B) Stage play
C) Narrative poem
D) Epistolary novel
  • 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) Werewolf
B) Ghoul
C) Ghost
D) Zombie
  • 53. Where did Stoker likely write most of the manuscript for 'Dracula'?
A) Cruden Bay, Scotland
B) London, England
C) Whitby, England
D) Dublin, Ireland
  • 54. Which word was explicitly avoided in Stoker's earliest outline of 'Dracula'?
A) Vampire
B) Count
C) Harker
D) Werewolf
  • 55. Who was one of the original characters in Stoker's notes that confronted 'Count Wampyr'?
A) Max Windshoeffel
B) Dr. Seward
C) Van Helsing
D) Jonathan Harker
  • 56. What geographical feature replaces Radcliffe's Apennine Mountains in 'Dracula'?
A) The Carpathian Mountains
B) The Andes
C) The Pyrenees
D) The Alps
  • 57. How does Daniel Renshaw describe the antisemitism present in Dracula?
A) Non-existent
B) Completely subliminal
C) Explicit and direct
D) Semi-subliminal
  • 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) Six months
B) About three years
C) One year
D) Five years
  • 60. What creature did Stoker associate with Dracula that was not as prevalent in earlier vampire fiction?
A) Ravens
B) Wolves
C) Bats
D) Snakes
  • 61. Which company published the American edition of 'Dracula' in 1899?
A) Doubleday & McClure
B) Harcourt Brace
C) Archibald Constable and Company
D) Macmillan Publishers
  • 62. What was Stoker's attitude towards Henry Irving according to Miller?
A) Disgust
B) Fear and animosity
C) Adulation
D) Indifference
  • 63. Which critic uses vampires as a metaphor in 'Das Kapital'?
A) Friedrich Engels
B) Karl Marx
C) John Maynard Keynes
D) Adam Smith
  • 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) 1890
B) 1893
C) 1892
D) 1888
  • 66. In what year did Raymond T. McNally and Radu Florescu publish 'In Search of Dracula'?
A) 1980
B) 1969
C) 1972
D) 1995
  • 67. Who edited 'The New Annotated Dracula'?
A) Leslie S. Klinger
B) Clive Leatherdale
C) Christopher Frayling
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) Arthur Conan Doyle
C) Gabriel Ronay
D) Saturday Review
  • 69. Which critic suggests that Dracula represents the death of feudalism?
A) Raphaël Ingelbien
B) Terry Eagleton
C) Bruce Stewart
D) Seamus Deane
  • 70. Which publication found Dracula's disdain for garlic unintentionally funny?
A) Vanity Fair
B) The Manchester Guardian
C) The Daily Telegraph
D) Saturday Review
  • 71. Which religious symbol is NOT mentioned as a weapon against Dracula?
A) Holy water
B) Garlic
C) Consecrated hosts
D) Crucifixes
  • 72. Which Victorian taboo does the Count break according to theorists?
A) Monogamous relationships
B) Public displays of affection
C) Marital fidelity
D) Non-procreative sexuality
  • 73. Which film first introduced the idea that sunlight is fatal to Dracula?
A) Dracula Untold (2014)
B) Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
C) Dracula (1931)
D) Nosferatu (1922)
  • 74. What literary work is considered vampire literature's 'centrepiece' according to Wendy Doniger?
A) 'Frankenstein'
B) 'Dracula'
C) 'Varney the Vampire'
D) 'Carmilla'
  • 75. Who is considered a literary progenitor of Count Dracula?
A) Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
B) John William Polidori's 'The Vampyre'
C) Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven
D) H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos
  • 76. Where was the original setting of Stoker's 'Dracula' before it was changed to Transylvania?
A) Ireland
B) Scotland
C) Styria
D) London
  • 77. In Bram Stoker's 'Dracula', which character is described by Christopher Herbert as more of a priest than a scientist?
A) Van Helsing
B) Mina Murray
C) Jonathan Harker
D) Lucy Westenra
  • 78. 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
  • 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) Raymond T. McNally and Radu Florescu
B) Calvin W. Keogh
C) Christopher Frayling
D) Clive Leatherdale
  • 81. Who does Michael Valdez Moses compare Dracula to?
A) Queen Victoria
B) Winston Churchill
C) Oliver Cromwell
D) Charles Stewart Parnell
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