Dracula - Quiz
Dracula
  • 1. Who is the author of the novel 'Dracula'?
A) Bram Stoker
B) Mary Shelley
C) H.P. Lovecraft
D) Edgar Allan Poe
  • 2. What is the first name of the character Van Helsing in 'Dracula'?
A) Lucy
B) Jonathan
C) Victor
D) Abraham
  • 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) Mayflower
B) Titanic
C) Endeavour
D) Demeter
  • 5. What does Dracula transform into to travel at night?
A) Wolf
B) Raven
C) Mist
D) Bat
  • 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) Quincey Morris
B) Dr. Seward
C) Arthur Holmwood
D) Jonathan Harker
  • 8. What is the name of the mental asylum where Renfield is confined?
A) Bedlam
B) Arkham
C) Carfax
D) Briarcliff
  • 9. Who is Lucy Westenra engaged to at the start of the novel?
A) Dr. Seward
B) Quincey Morris
C) Jonathan Harker
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 chimney
D) Through the floorboards
  • 11. In what year was 'Dracula' published?
A) 1897
B) 1907
C) 1917
D) 1887
  • 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) Mina Murray
D) Caroline Harker
  • 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) Silver bullets
B) Holy water
C) A crucifix
D) Garlic flowers
  • 16. What is Mina's connection to Dracula after being attacked?
A) She loses her memory
B) She becomes his servant
C) She has a faint psychic connection that helps track him
D) She turns into a vampire
  • 17. What happens to Mina after Dracula's death?
A) She marries Quincey Morris
B) She moves to Transylvania
C) She becomes the new Count Dracula
D) Her vampiric curse is lifted
  • 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 becomes a vampire hunter
C) He moves to Transylvania
D) He marries Lucy Westenra
  • 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 Whitby's public library
B) In an ancient manuscript
C) In a dream
D) From a friend
  • 21. What structural similarity do some reviewers note in 'Dracula'?
A) Similarity with Jane Eyre
B) Similarity with Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White
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 lost during World War II
D) It was incorrectly filed in the United States, making it public domain there
  • 23. How many times has Dracula appeared in various forms of media?
A) Over 700 times
B) 100 times
C) 500 times
D) Under 50 times
  • 24. What is the significance of 'Dracula' in Gothic fiction?
A) It is not related to Gothic fiction
B) It is seen as a minor contribution
C) It is considered an average work
D) It is regarded as a seminal work
  • 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) Three
B) Five
C) Seven
D) Nine
  • 27. What was Bram Stoker's role at the Lyceum Theatre?
A) Stage actor
B) Business manager
C) Director
D) Playwright
  • 28. Who did Bram Stoker marry in 1878?
A) Mary Shelley
B) Jane Austen
C) Florence Balcombe
D) Elisabeth Miller
  • 29. Which actor's performance review by Stoker led to their friendship?
A) Charles Dickens
B) Oscar Wilde
C) William Shakespeare
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) 10
B) 30
C) 18
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) 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) Night
C) Devil
D) Shadow
  • 35. Which publication described Stoker as 'the Edgar Allan Poe of the nineties'?
A) An anonymous writer
B) The Bookseller
C) Saturday Review
D) The Daily Telegraph
  • 36. When did publishers recognize 'Dracula's' copyright status?
A) The 1960s
B) The 1980s
C) The 2000s
D) The 1920s
  • 37. Who played Mina during the stage adaptation reading of 'Dracula'?
A) Florence Stoker
B) Edith Craig
C) Bram Stoker
D) Charlotte 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) 'Vampyres: Lord Byron to Count Dracula'
D) 'Beyond Dracula: Bram Stoker's Fiction and Its Cultural Context'
  • 39. What is the title of the chapter included in the 1979 edition edited by McNally and Florescu?
A) Dracula's Guest
B) Vampire Chronicles
C) The Un-Dead
D) Count Dracula's Journey
  • 40. What was the cost of 'Dracula' upon its initial publication in May 1897?
A) 5 shillings
B) 6 shillings
C) 8 shillings
D) 10 shillings
  • 41. Which Irish folklore figure is suggested as an inspiration for Dracula?
A) The revenant Abhartach
B) Leprechauns
C) Finn McCool
D) Cú Chulainn
  • 42. What historical event is noted as influencing Stoker's writing of 'Dracula'?
A) World War I
B) The Industrial Revolution
C) The Great Famine (1845–1852)
D) The American Civil War
  • 43. According to Brian Aldiss, what does Count Dracula represent in the novel?
A) A cure for madness
B) The initial disease
C) A representation of wealth
D) A symbol of purity
  • 44. How many chapters did Stoker's outline of 'Dracula' have in February 1892?
A) 27
B) 30
C) 15
D) 12
  • 45. Which publication praised 'Dracula's' capacity to entertain but criticized its horror content?
A) The Manchester Guardian
B) Vanity Fair
C) Saturday Review
D) The Daily Telegraph
  • 46. Who provides a postcolonialist analysis of Dracula, describing it as representing 'reverse colonisation'?
A) Daniel Renshaw
B) Stephen Arata
C) Patricia McKee
D) Halberstam
  • 47. What was the original title of Bram Stoker's 'Dracula'?
A) The Un-Dead
B) Transylvanian Tales
C) Count Dracula
D) Vampire Chronicles
  • 48. Who did Stoker intend to include as a psychical investigator in his original plans for 'Dracula'?
A) Mina Murray
B) Singleton
C) Van Helsing
D) Lucy Westenra
  • 49. Which genre does 'Dracula' belong to?
A) Romantic literature
B) Science fiction
C) Historical fiction
D) Gothic literature
  • 50. What format did Stoker originally intend for 'Dracula' to be written in?
A) Narrative poem
B) Detective story
C) Stage play
D) Epistolary novel
  • 51. For the first thousand sales of 'Dracula', how much did Stoker earn?
A) Half royalties
B) Moderate royalties
C) No royalties
D) A large sum
  • 52. What creature was supposed to slay one of the vampire hunters in Stoker's original notes?
A) Ghost
B) Ghoul
C) Zombie
D) Werewolf
  • 53. Where did Stoker likely write most of the manuscript for 'Dracula'?
A) Dublin, Ireland
B) Cruden Bay, Scotland
C) London, England
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) Dr. Seward
B) Van Helsing
C) Jonathan Harker
D) Max Windshoeffel
  • 56. What geographical feature replaces Radcliffe's Apennine Mountains in 'Dracula'?
A) The Alps
B) The Carpathian Mountains
C) The Andes
D) The Pyrenees
  • 57. How does Daniel Renshaw describe the antisemitism present in Dracula?
A) Completely subliminal
B) Semi-subliminal
C) Non-existent
D) Explicit and direct
  • 58. What social concern in late Victorian England is associated with vampirism in Bram Stoker's 'Dracula'?
A) Colonialism
B) Industrialization
C) Contagious disease
D) Poverty
  • 59. How long did it take Stoker to write 'Dracula'?
A) Six months
B) One year
C) About three years
D) Five years
  • 60. What creature did Stoker associate with Dracula that was not as prevalent in earlier vampire fiction?
A) Bats
B) Ravens
C) Snakes
D) Wolves
  • 61. Which company published the American edition of 'Dracula' in 1899?
A) Doubleday & McClure
B) Archibald Constable and Company
C) Macmillan Publishers
D) Harcourt Brace
  • 62. What was Stoker's attitude towards Henry Irving according to Miller?
A) Fear and animosity
B) Disgust
C) Indifference
D) Adulation
  • 63. Which critic uses vampires as a metaphor in 'Das Kapital'?
A) Friedrich Engels
B) John Maynard Keynes
C) Karl Marx
D) Adam Smith
  • 64. What is the reason given in the novel for vampires having no reflection?
A) Mirrors show the human soul
B) It's a curse placed upon them
C) They have supernatural powers
D) Vampires are made of shadows
  • 65. In which year were the earliest dated notes for 'Dracula' written by Stoker?
A) 1888
B) 1892
C) 1890
D) 1893
  • 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) Raymond T. McNally
B) Leslie S. Klinger
C) Christopher Frayling
D) Clive Leatherdale
  • 68. Which publication mentioned that 'Dracula' was recognized as a horror writer's stroke of genius?
A) Saturday Review
B) The Daily Telegraph
C) Arthur Conan Doyle
D) Gabriel Ronay
  • 69. Which critic suggests that Dracula represents the death of feudalism?
A) Bruce Stewart
B) Terry Eagleton
C) Seamus Deane
D) Raphaël Ingelbien
  • 70. Which publication found Dracula's disdain for garlic unintentionally funny?
A) The Manchester Guardian
B) Saturday Review
C) Vanity Fair
D) The Daily Telegraph
  • 71. Which religious symbol is NOT mentioned as a weapon against Dracula?
A) Garlic
B) Crucifixes
C) Consecrated hosts
D) Holy water
  • 72. Which Victorian taboo does the Count break according to theorists?
A) Monogamous relationships
B) Non-procreative sexuality
C) Public displays of affection
D) Marital fidelity
  • 73. 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)
  • 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) John William Polidori's 'The Vampyre'
B) Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven
C) H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos
D) Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
  • 76. Where was the original setting of Stoker's 'Dracula' before it was changed to Transylvania?
A) London
B) Styria
C) Ireland
D) Scotland
  • 77. In Bram Stoker's 'Dracula', which character is described by Christopher Herbert as more of a priest than a scientist?
A) Mina Murray
B) Jonathan Harker
C) Van Helsing
D) Lucy Westenra
  • 78. What is one unique attribute that Stoker invented for his vampires?
A) Their aversion to garlic
B) They must be invited into one's home
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) Christopher Frayling
C) Clive Leatherdale
D) Calvin W. Keogh
  • 81. Who does Michael Valdez Moses compare Dracula to?
A) Oliver Cromwell
B) Charles Stewart Parnell
C) Winston Churchill
D) Queen Victoria
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