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  • 1. Who is the author of the novel 'Dracula'?
A) Mary Shelley
B) Bram Stoker
C) Edgar Allan Poe
D) H.P. Lovecraft
  • 2. What is the first name of the character Van Helsing in 'Dracula'?
A) Jonathan
B) Victor
C) Abraham
D) Lucy
  • 3. What is the name of Dracula's castle in the novel?
A) Castle Dracula
B) Castle Black
C) Castle Ravenloft
D) Castle Bran
  • 4. What is the name of the ship that brings Dracula to England?
A) Titanic
B) Endeavour
C) Demeter
D) Mayflower
  • 5. What does Dracula transform into to travel at night?
A) Mist
B) Bat
C) Wolf
D) Raven
  • 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) Arthur Holmwood
B) Jonathan Harker
C) Dr. Seward
D) Quincey Morris
  • 8. What is the name of the mental asylum where Renfield is confined?
A) Briarcliff
B) Bedlam
C) Carfax
D) Arkham
  • 9. Who is Lucy Westenra engaged to at the start of the novel?
A) Quincey Morris
B) Arthur Holmwood
C) Dr. Seward
D) Jonathan Harker
  • 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) 1907
B) 1897
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) Mina Murray
C) Caroline Harker
D) Lucy Westenra
  • 14. What is Count Dracula's plan when he moves to England?
A) To plague the seaside town of Whitby
B) To become king
C) To marry Mina Murray
D) To purchase a castle in London
  • 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 has a faint psychic connection that helps track him
B) She loses her memory
C) She becomes his servant
D) She turns into a vampire
  • 17. What happens to Mina after Dracula's death?
A) She moves to Transylvania
B) She marries Quincey Morris
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 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) Captain Ahab
D) Vlad the Impaler and Elizabeth Báthory
  • 20. Where did Bram Stoker find the name 'Dracula'?
A) In an ancient manuscript
B) In a dream
C) In Whitby's public library
D) From a friend
  • 21. What structural similarity do some reviewers note in 'Dracula'?
A) Similarity with Pride and Prejudice
B) Similarity with Jane Eyre
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 never copyrighted
B) It was lost during World War II
C) It expired after 50 years
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) Under 50 times
B) Over 700 times
C) 500 times
D) 100 times
  • 24. What is the significance of 'Dracula' in Gothic fiction?
A) It is considered an average work
B) It is not related to Gothic fiction
C) It is seen as a minor contribution
D) It is regarded as a seminal work
  • 25. Where was Bram Stoker born?
A) London, England
B) Clontarf, Dublin
C) New York City, USA
D) Budapest, Hungary
  • 26. How many children did Bram Stoker have?
A) Nine
B) Three
C) Seven
D) Five
  • 27. What was Bram Stoker's role at the Lyceum Theatre?
A) Director
B) Stage actor
C) Playwright
D) Business manager
  • 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) Charles Dickens
B) Henry Irving
C) Oscar Wilde
D) William Shakespeare
  • 30. What was Bram Stoker more closely identified with during his lifetime?
A) Romance novels
B) Poetry
C) The theatre
D) Science fiction
  • 31. How many books had Bram Stoker published by the time of his death in 1912?
A) 10
B) 25
C) 30
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) Clive Leatherdale
B) Leslie S. Klinger
C) Christopher Frayling
D) Raymond T. McNally
  • 34. What does the name 'Dracula' mean according to Stoker's source?
A) Wolf
B) Night
C) Shadow
D) Devil
  • 35. Which publication described Stoker as 'the Edgar Allan Poe of the nineties'?
A) The Daily Telegraph
B) An anonymous writer
C) Saturday Review
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) Bram Stoker
B) Florence Stoker
C) Charlotte 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) 'Beyond Dracula: Bram Stoker's Fiction and Its Cultural Context'
C) 'The New Annotated 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) 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) 8 shillings
C) 5 shillings
D) 6 shillings
  • 41. Which Irish folklore figure is suggested as an inspiration for Dracula?
A) The revenant Abhartach
B) Cú Chulainn
C) Leprechauns
D) Finn McCool
  • 42. What historical event is noted as influencing Stoker's writing of 'Dracula'?
A) The Industrial Revolution
B) The American Civil War
C) The Great Famine (1845–1852)
D) World War I
  • 43. According to Brian Aldiss, what does Count Dracula represent in the novel?
A) A symbol of purity
B) A representation of wealth
C) The initial disease
D) A cure for madness
  • 44. How many chapters did Stoker's outline of 'Dracula' have in February 1892?
A) 30
B) 12
C) 15
D) 27
  • 45. Which publication praised 'Dracula's' capacity to entertain but criticized its horror content?
A) Vanity Fair
B) The Manchester Guardian
C) The Daily Telegraph
D) Saturday Review
  • 46. Who provides a postcolonialist analysis of Dracula, describing it as representing 'reverse colonisation'?
A) Patricia McKee
B) Halberstam
C) Stephen Arata
D) Daniel Renshaw
  • 47. What was the original title of Bram Stoker's 'Dracula'?
A) Vampire Chronicles
B) Transylvanian Tales
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) Singleton
C) Lucy Westenra
D) Mina Murray
  • 49. Which genre does 'Dracula' belong to?
A) Gothic literature
B) Science fiction
C) Historical fiction
D) Romantic literature
  • 50. What format did Stoker originally intend for 'Dracula' to be written in?
A) Stage play
B) Epistolary novel
C) Detective story
D) Narrative poem
  • 51. For the first thousand sales of 'Dracula', how much did Stoker earn?
A) A large sum
B) Moderate royalties
C) Half royalties
D) No royalties
  • 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) 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) Werewolf
D) Harker
  • 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 Pyrenees
B) The Alps
C) The Andes
D) The Carpathian Mountains
  • 57. How does Daniel Renshaw describe the antisemitism present in Dracula?
A) Non-existent
B) Semi-subliminal
C) Explicit and direct
D) Completely subliminal
  • 58. What social concern in late Victorian England is associated with vampirism in Bram Stoker's 'Dracula'?
A) Colonialism
B) Contagious disease
C) Industrialization
D) Poverty
  • 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) Wolves
B) Snakes
C) Ravens
D) Bats
  • 61. Which company published the American edition of 'Dracula' in 1899?
A) Macmillan Publishers
B) Doubleday & McClure
C) Archibald Constable and Company
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) John Maynard Keynes
B) Karl Marx
C) Adam Smith
D) Friedrich Engels
  • 64. What is the reason given in the novel for vampires having no reflection?
A) Mirrors show the human soul
B) They have supernatural powers
C) Vampires are made of shadows
D) It's a curse placed upon them
  • 65. In which year were the earliest dated notes for 'Dracula' written by Stoker?
A) 1892
B) 1888
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) Arthur Conan Doyle
C) The Daily Telegraph
D) Gabriel Ronay
  • 69. Which critic suggests that Dracula represents the death of feudalism?
A) Terry Eagleton
B) Bruce Stewart
C) Seamus Deane
D) Raphaël Ingelbien
  • 70. Which publication found Dracula's disdain for garlic unintentionally funny?
A) The Manchester Guardian
B) The Daily Telegraph
C) Vanity Fair
D) Saturday Review
  • 71. Which religious symbol is NOT mentioned as a weapon against Dracula?
A) Crucifixes
B) Consecrated hosts
C) Garlic
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) Dracula Untold (2014)
C) Dracula (1931)
D) Nosferatu (1922)
  • 74. What literary work is considered vampire literature's 'centrepiece' according to Wendy Doniger?
A) 'Dracula'
B) 'Varney the Vampire'
C) 'Frankenstein'
D) 'Carmilla'
  • 75. Who is considered a literary progenitor of Count Dracula?
A) John William Polidori's 'The Vampyre'
B) Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
C) H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos
D) Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven
  • 76. Where was the original setting of Stoker's 'Dracula' before it was changed to Transylvania?
A) London
B) Ireland
C) Scotland
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) Van Helsing
C) Mina Murray
D) Lucy Westenra
  • 78. What is one unique attribute that Stoker invented for his vampires?
A) Having no reflection in mirrors
B) They must be invited into one's home
C) Sunlight being fatal
D) Their aversion to garlic
  • 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) Clive Leatherdale
C) Calvin W. Keogh
D) Christopher Frayling
  • 81. Who does Michael Valdez Moses compare Dracula to?
A) Winston Churchill
B) Oliver Cromwell
C) Charles Stewart Parnell
D) Queen Victoria
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