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  • 1. Who is the author of the novel 'Dracula'?
A) Mary Shelley
B) H.P. Lovecraft
C) Bram Stoker
D) Edgar Allan Poe
  • 2. What is the first name of the character Van Helsing in 'Dracula'?
A) Abraham
B) Lucy
C) Jonathan
D) Victor
  • 3. What is the name of Dracula's castle in the novel?
A) Castle Ravenloft
B) Castle Dracula
C) Castle Black
D) Castle Bran
  • 4. What is the name of the ship that brings Dracula to England?
A) Demeter
B) Titanic
C) Endeavour
D) Mayflower
  • 5. What does Dracula transform into to travel at night?
A) Bat
B) Mist
C) Wolf
D) Raven
  • 6. What does Mina Harker use to fend off Dracula's mind control?
A) Rosary
B) Crossbow
C) Silver crucifix
D) Crucifix
  • 7. Who is engaged to Mina Harker in 'Dracula'?
A) Dr. Seward
B) Jonathan Harker
C) Quincey Morris
D) Arthur Holmwood
  • 8. What is the name of the mental asylum where Renfield is confined?
A) Arkham
B) Bedlam
C) Carfax
D) Briarcliff
  • 9. Who is Lucy Westenra engaged to at the start of the novel?
A) Dr. Seward
B) Jonathan Harker
C) Arthur Holmwood
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 chimney
D) Through the window
  • 11. In what year was 'Dracula' published?
A) 1917
B) 1887
C) 1907
D) 1897
  • 12. What is the primary narrative technique used in 'Dracula'?
A) First-person narration
B) Soliloquy
C) Stream of consciousness
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 plague the seaside town of Whitby
B) To purchase a castle in London
C) To marry Mina Murray
D) To become king
  • 15. What is used to protect Lucy from vampires?
A) Silver bullets
B) Holy water
C) A crucifix
D) Garlic flowers
  • 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 loses her memory
D) She becomes his servant
  • 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 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) Captain Ahab
B) Sherlock Holmes
C) Dr. Frankenstein
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) In Whitby's public library
D) From a friend
  • 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 Pride and Prejudice
D) Similarity with Moby Dick
  • 22. What is a significant issue regarding the novel's copyright?
A) It was never copyrighted
B) It expired after 50 years
C) It was incorrectly filed in the United States, making it public domain there
D) It was lost during World War II
  • 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 considered an average work
C) It is seen as a minor contribution
D) It is not related to Gothic fiction
  • 25. Where was Bram Stoker born?
A) London, England
B) Budapest, Hungary
C) Clontarf, Dublin
D) New York City, USA
  • 26. How many children did Bram Stoker have?
A) Seven
B) Nine
C) Three
D) Five
  • 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) Florence Balcombe
B) Jane Austen
C) Mary Shelley
D) Elisabeth Miller
  • 29. Which actor's performance review by Stoker led to their friendship?
A) Oscar Wilde
B) Charles Dickens
C) William Shakespeare
D) Henry Irving
  • 30. What was Bram Stoker more closely identified with during his lifetime?
A) Science fiction
B) The theatre
C) Poetry
D) Romance novels
  • 31. How many books had Bram Stoker published by the time of his death in 1912?
A) 10
B) 18
C) 30
D) 25
  • 32. Who wrote Bram Stoker's obituary in The Daily Telegraph?
A) Hall Caine
B) Oscar Wilde
C) Thomas Hardy
D) Charles Dickens
  • 33. Which author wrote 'Vampyres: Lord Byron to Count Dracula'?
A) Raymond T. McNally
B) Leslie S. Klinger
C) Clive Leatherdale
D) Christopher Frayling
  • 34. What does the name 'Dracula' mean according to Stoker's source?
A) Night
B) Shadow
C) Devil
D) Wolf
  • 35. Which publication described Stoker as 'the Edgar Allan Poe of the nineties'?
A) Saturday Review
B) An anonymous writer
C) The Daily Telegraph
D) The Bookseller
  • 36. When did publishers recognize 'Dracula's' copyright status?
A) The 1980s
B) The 2000s
C) The 1920s
D) The 1960s
  • 37. Who played Mina during the stage adaptation reading of 'Dracula'?
A) Charlotte Stoker
B) Florence Stoker
C) Bram Stoker
D) Edith Craig
  • 38. What is the title of the book that provides a centennial edition of 'Dracula'?
A) 'Vampyres: Lord Byron to Count Dracula'
B) 'Dracula: A Centennial Edition'
C) 'Beyond Dracula: Bram Stoker's Fiction and Its Cultural Context'
D) 'The New Annotated Dracula'
  • 39. 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
  • 40. What was the cost of 'Dracula' upon its initial publication in May 1897?
A) 10 shillings
B) 6 shillings
C) 8 shillings
D) 5 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 American Civil War
C) The Industrial Revolution
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) A symbol of purity
C) The initial disease
D) A cure for madness
  • 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) Saturday Review
B) Vanity Fair
C) The Daily Telegraph
D) The Manchester Guardian
  • 46. Who provides a postcolonialist analysis of Dracula, describing it as representing 'reverse colonisation'?
A) Halberstam
B) Stephen Arata
C) Daniel Renshaw
D) Patricia McKee
  • 47. What was the original title of Bram Stoker's 'Dracula'?
A) The Un-Dead
B) Count Dracula
C) Vampire Chronicles
D) Transylvanian Tales
  • 48. Who did Stoker intend to include as a psychical investigator in his original plans for 'Dracula'?
A) Van Helsing
B) Lucy Westenra
C) Mina Murray
D) Singleton
  • 49. Which genre does 'Dracula' belong to?
A) Science fiction
B) Historical fiction
C) Gothic literature
D) Romantic literature
  • 50. What format did Stoker originally intend for 'Dracula' to be written in?
A) Narrative poem
B) Stage play
C) Detective story
D) Epistolary novel
  • 51. For the first thousand sales of 'Dracula', how much did Stoker earn?
A) No royalties
B) A large sum
C) Moderate royalties
D) Half royalties
  • 52. What creature was supposed to slay one of the vampire hunters in Stoker's original notes?
A) Ghoul
B) Zombie
C) Werewolf
D) Ghost
  • 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) Harker
B) Vampire
C) Count
D) Werewolf
  • 55. Who was one of the original characters in Stoker's notes that confronted 'Count Wampyr'?
A) Van Helsing
B) Jonathan Harker
C) Max Windshoeffel
D) Dr. Seward
  • 56. What geographical feature replaces Radcliffe's Apennine Mountains in 'Dracula'?
A) The Carpathian Mountains
B) The Andes
C) The Alps
D) The Pyrenees
  • 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) Contagious disease
B) Industrialization
C) Colonialism
D) Poverty
  • 59. How long did it take Stoker to write 'Dracula'?
A) About three years
B) Five years
C) Six months
D) One year
  • 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) 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) Fear and animosity
B) Disgust
C) Adulation
D) Indifference
  • 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) 1888
B) 1890
C) 1892
D) 1893
  • 66. In what year did Raymond T. McNally and Radu Florescu publish 'In Search of Dracula'?
A) 1980
B) 1995
C) 1972
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) 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) Seamus Deane
B) Terry Eagleton
C) Bruce Stewart
D) Raphaël Ingelbien
  • 70. Which publication found Dracula's disdain for garlic unintentionally funny?
A) The Manchester Guardian
B) Vanity Fair
C) The Daily Telegraph
D) Saturday Review
  • 71. Which religious symbol is NOT mentioned as a weapon against Dracula?
A) Crucifixes
B) Consecrated hosts
C) Holy water
D) Garlic
  • 72. Which Victorian taboo does the Count break according to theorists?
A) Marital fidelity
B) Monogamous relationships
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) Dracula Untold (2014)
C) Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
D) Nosferatu (1922)
  • 74. What literary work is considered vampire literature's 'centrepiece' according to Wendy Doniger?
A) 'Carmilla'
B) 'Varney the Vampire'
C) 'Frankenstein'
D) 'Dracula'
  • 75. Who is considered a literary progenitor of Count Dracula?
A) H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos
B) John William Polidori's 'The Vampyre'
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) Lucy Westenra
B) Jonathan Harker
C) Van Helsing
D) Mina Murray
  • 78. What is one unique attribute that Stoker invented for his vampires?
A) They must be invited into one's home
B) Their aversion to garlic
C) Sunlight being fatal
D) Having no reflection in mirrors
  • 79. Which theory is used to characterize vampirism in the novel?
A) Darwinian evolution
B) Social degeneration theory
C) Classical economics
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) Calvin W. Keogh
C) Clive Leatherdale
D) Christopher Frayling
  • 81. Who does Michael Valdez Moses compare Dracula to?
A) Charles Stewart Parnell
B) Queen Victoria
C) Oliver Cromwell
D) Winston Churchill
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