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  • 1. Who is the author of the novel 'Dracula'?
A) H.P. Lovecraft
B) Mary Shelley
C) Bram Stoker
D) Edgar Allan Poe
  • 2. What is the first name of the character Van Helsing in 'Dracula'?
A) Lucy
B) Abraham
C) Jonathan
D) Victor
  • 3. What is the name of Dracula's castle in the novel?
A) Castle Black
B) Castle Bran
C) Castle Dracula
D) Castle Ravenloft
  • 4. What is the name of the ship that brings Dracula to England?
A) Demeter
B) Mayflower
C) Endeavour
D) Titanic
  • 5. What does Dracula transform into to travel at night?
A) Bat
B) Raven
C) Wolf
D) Mist
  • 6. What does Mina Harker use to fend off Dracula's mind control?
A) Crucifix
B) Silver crucifix
C) Rosary
D) Crossbow
  • 7. Who is engaged to Mina Harker in 'Dracula'?
A) Arthur Holmwood
B) Dr. Seward
C) Quincey Morris
D) Jonathan Harker
  • 8. What is the name of the mental asylum where Renfield is confined?
A) Arkham
B) Briarcliff
C) Bedlam
D) Carfax
  • 9. Who is Lucy Westenra engaged to at the start of the novel?
A) Arthur Holmwood
B) Dr. Seward
C) Jonathan Harker
D) Quincey Morris
  • 10. How does Dracula gain entry into Mina Harker's bedroom?
A) Through the floorboards
B) Through the door
C) Through the window
D) Through the chimney
  • 11. In what year was 'Dracula' published?
A) 1907
B) 1917
C) 1887
D) 1897
  • 12. What is the primary narrative technique used in 'Dracula'?
A) Letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles
B) Stream of consciousness
C) First-person narration
D) Soliloquy
  • 13. Who is Jonathan Harker's fiancée in 'Dracula'?
A) Renfield
B) Lucy Westenra
C) Caroline Harker
D) Mina Murray
  • 14. What is Count Dracula's plan when he moves to England?
A) To purchase a castle in London
B) To plague the seaside town of Whitby
C) To become king
D) To marry Mina Murray
  • 15. What is used to protect Lucy from vampires?
A) A crucifix
B) Garlic flowers
C) Silver bullets
D) Holy water
  • 16. What is Mina's connection to Dracula after being attacked?
A) She becomes his servant
B) She loses her memory
C) She turns into a vampire
D) She has a faint psychic connection that helps track him
  • 17. What happens to Mina after Dracula's death?
A) Her vampiric curse is lifted
B) She becomes the new Count Dracula
C) She moves to Transylvania
D) She marries Quincey Morris
  • 18. What does Jonathan Harker do seven years after the events of 'Dracula'?
A) He becomes a vampire hunter
B) He marries Lucy Westenra
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) 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) In Whitby's public library
B) From a friend
C) In an ancient manuscript
D) In a dream
  • 21. What structural similarity do some reviewers note in 'Dracula'?
A) Similarity with Pride and Prejudice
B) Similarity with Moby Dick
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 expired after 50 years
B) It was lost during World War II
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) 500 times
B) Over 700 times
C) Under 50 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 considered an average work
C) It is not related to Gothic fiction
D) It is seen as a minor contribution
  • 25. Where was Bram Stoker born?
A) Clontarf, Dublin
B) New York City, USA
C) London, England
D) Budapest, Hungary
  • 26. How many children did Bram Stoker have?
A) Nine
B) Three
C) Five
D) Seven
  • 27. What was Bram Stoker's role at the Lyceum Theatre?
A) Stage actor
B) Playwright
C) Business manager
D) Director
  • 28. Who did Bram Stoker marry in 1878?
A) Elisabeth Miller
B) Jane Austen
C) Florence Balcombe
D) Mary Shelley
  • 29. Which actor's performance review by Stoker led to their friendship?
A) William Shakespeare
B) Oscar Wilde
C) Charles Dickens
D) Henry Irving
  • 30. What was Bram Stoker more closely identified with during his lifetime?
A) The theatre
B) Science fiction
C) Romance novels
D) Poetry
  • 31. How many books had Bram Stoker published by the time of his death in 1912?
A) 25
B) 18
C) 30
D) 10
  • 32. Who wrote Bram Stoker's obituary in The Daily Telegraph?
A) Thomas Hardy
B) Charles Dickens
C) Oscar Wilde
D) Hall Caine
  • 33. Which author wrote 'Vampyres: Lord Byron to Count Dracula'?
A) Christopher Frayling
B) Raymond T. McNally
C) Clive Leatherdale
D) Leslie S. Klinger
  • 34. What does the name 'Dracula' mean according to Stoker's source?
A) Wolf
B) Shadow
C) Night
D) Devil
  • 35. Which publication described Stoker as 'the Edgar Allan Poe of the nineties'?
A) Saturday Review
B) An anonymous writer
C) The Bookseller
D) The Daily Telegraph
  • 36. When did publishers recognize 'Dracula's' copyright status?
A) The 1980s
B) The 1960s
C) The 2000s
D) The 1920s
  • 37. Who played Mina during the stage adaptation reading of 'Dracula'?
A) Florence Stoker
B) Bram Stoker
C) Charlotte Stoker
D) Edith Craig
  • 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) 'The New Annotated Dracula'
C) 'Vampyres: Lord Byron to Count Dracula'
D) 'Dracula: A Centennial Edition'
  • 39. What is the title of the chapter included in the 1979 edition edited by McNally and Florescu?
A) The Un-Dead
B) Vampire Chronicles
C) Count Dracula's Journey
D) Dracula's Guest
  • 40. What was the cost of 'Dracula' upon its initial publication in May 1897?
A) 8 shillings
B) 10 shillings
C) 6 shillings
D) 5 shillings
  • 41. Which Irish folklore figure is suggested as an inspiration for Dracula?
A) Finn McCool
B) Leprechauns
C) The revenant Abhartach
D) Cú Chulainn
  • 42. What historical event is noted as influencing Stoker's writing of 'Dracula'?
A) The Industrial Revolution
B) World War I
C) The American Civil War
D) The Great Famine (1845–1852)
  • 43. According to Brian Aldiss, what does Count Dracula represent in the novel?
A) A cure for madness
B) A symbol of purity
C) The initial disease
D) A representation of wealth
  • 44. How many chapters did Stoker's outline of 'Dracula' have in February 1892?
A) 15
B) 30
C) 27
D) 12
  • 45. Which publication praised 'Dracula's' capacity to entertain but criticized its horror content?
A) Saturday Review
B) The Daily Telegraph
C) The Manchester Guardian
D) Vanity Fair
  • 46. Who provides a postcolonialist analysis of Dracula, describing it as representing 'reverse colonisation'?
A) Stephen Arata
B) Halberstam
C) Patricia McKee
D) Daniel Renshaw
  • 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) Lucy Westenra
C) Singleton
D) Mina Murray
  • 49. Which genre does 'Dracula' belong to?
A) Gothic literature
B) Historical fiction
C) Science fiction
D) Romantic literature
  • 50. What format did Stoker originally intend for 'Dracula' to be written in?
A) Narrative poem
B) Stage play
C) Epistolary novel
D) Detective story
  • 51. For the first thousand sales of 'Dracula', how much did Stoker earn?
A) No royalties
B) Half royalties
C) Moderate royalties
D) A large sum
  • 52. What creature was supposed to slay one of the vampire hunters in Stoker's original notes?
A) Zombie
B) Ghost
C) Werewolf
D) Ghoul
  • 53. Where did Stoker likely write most of the manuscript for 'Dracula'?
A) London, England
B) Dublin, Ireland
C) Cruden Bay, Scotland
D) Whitby, England
  • 54. Which word was explicitly avoided in Stoker's earliest outline of 'Dracula'?
A) Werewolf
B) Harker
C) Vampire
D) Count
  • 55. Who was one of the original characters in Stoker's notes that confronted 'Count Wampyr'?
A) Van Helsing
B) Jonathan Harker
C) Dr. Seward
D) Max Windshoeffel
  • 56. What geographical feature replaces Radcliffe's Apennine Mountains in 'Dracula'?
A) The Pyrenees
B) The Carpathian Mountains
C) The Andes
D) The Alps
  • 57. How does Daniel Renshaw describe the antisemitism present in Dracula?
A) Semi-subliminal
B) Explicit and direct
C) Non-existent
D) Completely subliminal
  • 58. What social concern in late Victorian England is associated with vampirism in Bram Stoker's 'Dracula'?
A) Poverty
B) Colonialism
C) Industrialization
D) Contagious disease
  • 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) Snakes
C) Wolves
D) Bats
  • 61. Which company published the American edition of 'Dracula' in 1899?
A) Macmillan Publishers
B) Harcourt Brace
C) Archibald Constable and Company
D) Doubleday & McClure
  • 62. What was Stoker's attitude towards Henry Irving according to Miller?
A) Indifference
B) Fear and animosity
C) Disgust
D) Adulation
  • 63. Which critic uses vampires as a metaphor in 'Das Kapital'?
A) Adam Smith
B) Karl Marx
C) John Maynard Keynes
D) Friedrich Engels
  • 64. What is the reason given in the novel for vampires having no reflection?
A) Vampires are made of shadows
B) It's a curse placed upon them
C) They have supernatural powers
D) Mirrors show the human soul
  • 65. In which year were the earliest dated notes for 'Dracula' written by Stoker?
A) 1890
B) 1892
C) 1893
D) 1888
  • 66. In what year did Raymond T. McNally and Radu Florescu publish 'In Search of Dracula'?
A) 1972
B) 1995
C) 1980
D) 1969
  • 67. Who edited 'The New Annotated Dracula'?
A) Christopher Frayling
B) Leslie S. Klinger
C) Clive Leatherdale
D) Raymond T. McNally
  • 68. Which publication mentioned that 'Dracula' was recognized as a horror writer's stroke of genius?
A) Saturday Review
B) Arthur Conan Doyle
C) The Daily Telegraph
D) Gabriel Ronay
  • 69. Which critic suggests that Dracula represents the death of feudalism?
A) Raphaël Ingelbien
B) Bruce Stewart
C) Seamus Deane
D) Terry Eagleton
  • 70. Which publication found Dracula's disdain for garlic unintentionally funny?
A) The Daily Telegraph
B) Vanity Fair
C) Saturday Review
D) The Manchester Guardian
  • 71. Which religious symbol is NOT mentioned as a weapon against Dracula?
A) Garlic
B) Crucifixes
C) Holy water
D) Consecrated hosts
  • 72. Which Victorian taboo does the Count break according to theorists?
A) Public displays of affection
B) Non-procreative sexuality
C) Marital fidelity
D) Monogamous relationships
  • 73. Which film first introduced the idea that sunlight is fatal to Dracula?
A) Dracula (1931)
B) Dracula Untold (2014)
C) Nosferatu (1922)
D) Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
  • 74. What literary work is considered vampire literature's 'centrepiece' according to Wendy Doniger?
A) 'Frankenstein'
B) 'Varney the Vampire'
C) 'Carmilla'
D) 'Dracula'
  • 75. Who is considered a literary progenitor of Count Dracula?
A) John William Polidori's 'The Vampyre'
B) H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos
C) Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven
D) Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
  • 76. Where was the original setting of Stoker's 'Dracula' before it was changed to Transylvania?
A) Scotland
B) Styria
C) Ireland
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) Jonathan Harker
C) Lucy Westenra
D) Mina Murray
  • 78. What is one unique attribute that Stoker invented for his vampires?
A) Sunlight being fatal
B) They must be invited into one's home
C) Their aversion to garlic
D) Having no reflection in mirrors
  • 79. Which theory is used to characterize vampirism in the novel?
A) Darwinian evolution
B) Psychoanalysis
C) Classical economics
D) Social degeneration theory
  • 80. Who are the authors of 'The Critics' Count: Revisions of Dracula and the Postcolonial Irish Gothic'?
A) Clive Leatherdale
B) Raymond T. McNally and Radu Florescu
C) Christopher Frayling
D) Calvin W. Keogh
  • 81. Who does Michael Valdez Moses compare Dracula to?
A) Charles Stewart Parnell
B) Queen Victoria
C) Winston Churchill
D) Oliver Cromwell
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