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  • 1. Who is the author of the novel 'Dracula'?
A) H.P. Lovecraft
B) Mary Shelley
C) Edgar Allan Poe
D) Bram Stoker
  • 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 Ravenloft
B) Castle Bran
C) Castle Dracula
D) Castle Black
  • 4. What is the name of the ship that brings Dracula to England?
A) Mayflower
B) Endeavour
C) Titanic
D) Demeter
  • 5. What does Dracula transform into to travel at night?
A) Bat
B) Wolf
C) Raven
D) Mist
  • 6. What does Mina Harker use to fend off Dracula's mind control?
A) Crossbow
B) Silver crucifix
C) Crucifix
D) Rosary
  • 7. Who is engaged to Mina Harker in 'Dracula'?
A) Jonathan Harker
B) Quincey Morris
C) Dr. Seward
D) Arthur Holmwood
  • 8. What is the name of the mental asylum where Renfield is confined?
A) Arkham
B) Briarcliff
C) Carfax
D) Bedlam
  • 9. Who is Lucy Westenra engaged to at the start of the novel?
A) Jonathan Harker
B) Dr. Seward
C) Quincey Morris
D) Arthur Holmwood
  • 10. How does Dracula gain entry into Mina Harker's bedroom?
A) Through the door
B) Through the window
C) Through the floorboards
D) Through the chimney
  • 11. In what year was 'Dracula' published?
A) 1897
B) 1917
C) 1907
D) 1887
  • 12. What is the primary narrative technique used in 'Dracula'?
A) Soliloquy
B) Letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles
C) Stream of consciousness
D) First-person narration
  • 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 purchase a castle in London
B) To marry Mina Murray
C) To plague the seaside town of Whitby
D) To become king
  • 15. What is used to protect Lucy from vampires?
A) A crucifix
B) Holy water
C) Garlic flowers
D) Silver bullets
  • 16. What is Mina's connection to Dracula after being attacked?
A) She turns into a vampire
B) She becomes his servant
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 moves to Transylvania
B) She becomes the new Count Dracula
C) She marries Quincey Morris
D) Her vampiric curse is lifted
  • 18. What does Jonathan Harker do seven years after the events of 'Dracula'?
A) He becomes a vampire hunter
B) He writes a note stating that he and Mina have a son named Quincey
C) He marries Lucy Westenra
D) He moves to Transylvania
  • 19. Who is suggested as an inspiration for Count Dracula?
A) Vlad the Impaler and Elizabeth Báthory
B) Sherlock Holmes
C) Dr. Frankenstein
D) Captain Ahab
  • 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 Jane Eyre
B) Similarity with Pride and Prejudice
C) Similarity with Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White
D) Similarity with Moby Dick
  • 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) Under 50 times
B) 500 times
C) Over 700 times
D) 100 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 seen as a minor contribution
D) It is considered an average work
  • 25. Where was Bram Stoker born?
A) New York City, USA
B) Budapest, Hungary
C) Clontarf, Dublin
D) London, England
  • 26. How many children did Bram Stoker have?
A) Five
B) Seven
C) Nine
D) Three
  • 27. What was Bram Stoker's role at the Lyceum Theatre?
A) Director
B) Playwright
C) Stage actor
D) Business manager
  • 28. Who did Bram Stoker marry in 1878?
A) Elisabeth Miller
B) Florence Balcombe
C) Mary Shelley
D) Jane Austen
  • 29. Which actor's performance review by Stoker led to their friendship?
A) Charles Dickens
B) Henry Irving
C) William Shakespeare
D) Oscar Wilde
  • 30. What was Bram Stoker more closely identified with during his lifetime?
A) Poetry
B) The theatre
C) Romance novels
D) Science fiction
  • 31. How many books had Bram Stoker published by the time of his death in 1912?
A) 30
B) 25
C) 10
D) 18
  • 32. Who wrote Bram Stoker's obituary in The Daily Telegraph?
A) Charles Dickens
B) Hall Caine
C) Thomas Hardy
D) Oscar Wilde
  • 33. Which author wrote 'Vampyres: Lord Byron to Count Dracula'?
A) Christopher Frayling
B) Raymond T. McNally
C) Leslie S. Klinger
D) Clive Leatherdale
  • 34. What does the name 'Dracula' mean according to Stoker's source?
A) Wolf
B) Devil
C) Shadow
D) Night
  • 35. Which publication described Stoker as 'the Edgar Allan Poe of the nineties'?
A) An anonymous writer
B) Saturday Review
C) The Daily Telegraph
D) The Bookseller
  • 36. When did publishers recognize 'Dracula's' copyright status?
A) The 1960s
B) The 1980s
C) The 1920s
D) The 2000s
  • 37. Who played Mina during the stage adaptation reading of 'Dracula'?
A) Charlotte Stoker
B) Edith Craig
C) Bram Stoker
D) Florence Stoker
  • 38. What is the title of the book that provides a centennial edition of 'Dracula'?
A) 'Dracula: A Centennial Edition'
B) 'The New Annotated Dracula'
C) 'Beyond Dracula: Bram Stoker's Fiction and Its Cultural Context'
D) 'Vampyres: Lord Byron to Count Dracula'
  • 39. What is the title of the chapter included in the 1979 edition edited by McNally and Florescu?
A) Vampire Chronicles
B) The Un-Dead
C) Count Dracula's Journey
D) Dracula's Guest
  • 40. What was the cost of 'Dracula' upon its initial publication in May 1897?
A) 10 shillings
B) 5 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) The revenant Abhartach
D) Cú Chulainn
  • 42. What historical event is noted as influencing Stoker's writing of 'Dracula'?
A) World War I
B) The Great Famine (1845–1852)
C) The American Civil War
D) The Industrial Revolution
  • 43. According to Brian Aldiss, what does Count Dracula represent in the novel?
A) The initial disease
B) A cure for madness
C) A symbol of purity
D) A representation of wealth
  • 44. How many chapters did Stoker's outline of 'Dracula' have in February 1892?
A) 27
B) 15
C) 30
D) 12
  • 45. Which publication praised 'Dracula's' capacity to entertain but criticized its horror content?
A) The Daily Telegraph
B) The Manchester Guardian
C) Vanity Fair
D) Saturday Review
  • 46. Who provides a postcolonialist analysis of Dracula, describing it as representing 'reverse colonisation'?
A) Stephen Arata
B) Daniel Renshaw
C) Halberstam
D) Patricia McKee
  • 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) Singleton
B) Lucy Westenra
C) Mina Murray
D) Van Helsing
  • 49. Which genre does 'Dracula' belong to?
A) Science fiction
B) Gothic literature
C) Historical fiction
D) Romantic literature
  • 50. What format did Stoker originally intend for 'Dracula' to be written in?
A) Detective story
B) Narrative poem
C) Stage play
D) Epistolary novel
  • 51. For the first thousand sales of 'Dracula', how much did Stoker earn?
A) No royalties
B) Moderate royalties
C) A large sum
D) Half royalties
  • 52. What creature was supposed to slay one of the vampire hunters in Stoker's original notes?
A) Ghoul
B) Werewolf
C) Ghost
D) Zombie
  • 53. Where did Stoker likely write most of the manuscript for 'Dracula'?
A) Dublin, Ireland
B) London, England
C) Cruden Bay, Scotland
D) Whitby, England
  • 54. Which word was explicitly avoided in Stoker's earliest outline of 'Dracula'?
A) Werewolf
B) Count
C) Vampire
D) Harker
  • 55. Who was one of the original characters in Stoker's notes that confronted 'Count Wampyr'?
A) Jonathan Harker
B) Van Helsing
C) Max Windshoeffel
D) Dr. Seward
  • 56. What geographical feature replaces Radcliffe's Apennine Mountains in 'Dracula'?
A) The Andes
B) The Alps
C) The Carpathian Mountains
D) The Pyrenees
  • 57. How does Daniel Renshaw describe the antisemitism present in Dracula?
A) Completely subliminal
B) Non-existent
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) Colonialism
B) Contagious disease
C) Poverty
D) Industrialization
  • 59. How long did it take Stoker to write 'Dracula'?
A) Five years
B) Six months
C) One year
D) About three years
  • 60. What creature did Stoker associate with Dracula that was not as prevalent in earlier vampire fiction?
A) Snakes
B) Wolves
C) Ravens
D) Bats
  • 61. Which company published the American edition of 'Dracula' in 1899?
A) Archibald Constable and Company
B) Doubleday & McClure
C) Macmillan Publishers
D) Harcourt Brace
  • 62. What was Stoker's attitude towards Henry Irving according to Miller?
A) Fear and animosity
B) Indifference
C) Adulation
D) Disgust
  • 63. Which critic uses vampires as a metaphor in 'Das Kapital'?
A) Karl Marx
B) John Maynard Keynes
C) Adam Smith
D) Friedrich Engels
  • 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) Vampires are made of shadows
D) Mirrors show the human soul
  • 65. In which year were the earliest dated notes for 'Dracula' written by Stoker?
A) 1892
B) 1890
C) 1888
D) 1893
  • 66. In what year did Raymond T. McNally and Radu Florescu publish 'In Search of Dracula'?
A) 1969
B) 1972
C) 1995
D) 1980
  • 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) Arthur Conan Doyle
B) Saturday Review
C) Gabriel Ronay
D) The Daily Telegraph
  • 69. Which critic suggests that Dracula represents the death of feudalism?
A) Seamus Deane
B) Raphaël Ingelbien
C) Terry Eagleton
D) Bruce Stewart
  • 70. Which publication found Dracula's disdain for garlic unintentionally funny?
A) The Daily Telegraph
B) The Manchester Guardian
C) Vanity Fair
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) Marital fidelity
C) Public displays of affection
D) Non-procreative sexuality
  • 73. 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)
  • 74. What literary work is considered vampire literature's 'centrepiece' according to Wendy Doniger?
A) 'Dracula'
B) 'Frankenstein'
C) 'Varney the Vampire'
D) 'Carmilla'
  • 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) Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
D) John William Polidori's 'The Vampyre'
  • 76. Where was the original setting of Stoker's 'Dracula' before it was changed to Transylvania?
A) London
B) Scotland
C) Ireland
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) Sunlight being fatal
B) Their aversion to garlic
C) They must be invited into one's home
D) Having no reflection in mirrors
  • 79. Which theory is used to characterize vampirism in the novel?
A) Classical economics
B) Social degeneration theory
C) Darwinian evolution
D) Psychoanalysis
  • 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) Christopher Frayling
C) Calvin W. Keogh
D) Clive Leatherdale
  • 81. Who does Michael Valdez Moses compare Dracula to?
A) Oliver Cromwell
B) Queen Victoria
C) Winston Churchill
D) Charles Stewart Parnell
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