1: What type of narrative style does Bram Stoker employ as he unveils the mystery of Count Dracula through a collage of letters, journal entries, various newspaper clippings, diary jottings, portions of a ship’s logs, and even a “phonograph diary?”
a. The first person point of view
b. An epistolary style
c. The omniscient point of view
d. Shifting points of view
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2: What twist of fate brings Jonathon Harker to the Castle Dracula?
a. He is lost on a trip in Transylvania.
b. His business requires him to travel through the Carpathian Mountains.
c. He is a young, English lawyer that must visit Count Dracula in order to finalize a transfer of real estate in England.
d. Dr. Abraham Van Helsing has hired him to investigate Count Dracula.
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3: Who is the “tall old man, clean shaven, save for a long white mustache and clad in black from had to foot, without a single speck of color about him anywhere?”
a. Dr. Abraham Van Helsing
b. Dr. John Seward
c. R.M. Renfield
d. Count Dracula
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4: What is the, “land beyond the forest?”
a. It is the Carpathian Mountains of Transylvania, Count Dracula’s estate.
b. It is the part of Transylvania that the peasants fear.
c. The Borgo Pass, it is the only way to reach Castle Dracula.
d. It is where the fifty boxes of earth came from.
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5: Jonathon Harker arrives at Bistriz on the eve of _____ , a night when “evil things in the world . . . have full sway.”
a. The New Year
b. St. George’s Day
c. Count Dracula’s birthday
d. War
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6: In his journal, Harker describes a place where “every known superstition in the world is gathered into the horseshoe of the Carpathians.” What is this place?
a. The Borgo Pass
b. Transylvania
c. Budapest
d. Count Dracula’s Estate
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7: What does Count Dracula offer as a reason for Jonathon Harker to stay for a time at Castle Dracula?
a. The weather is bad, so the Borgo Pass is treacherous.
b. He wants Harker to remain in the castle as long as possible in order to perfect his English pronunciation.
c. In order to complete the transfer of land in England.
d. So that Harker can accompany Count Dracula to England.
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8: Why does Count Dracula fling the shaving glass out the window?
a. He does not want Harker to shave.
b. Because he fears Harker will realize that he has no reflection--a vampire neither throws a shadow, nor makes a reflection in a mirror.
c. In order to signal the women vampires where Jonathon Harker is staying in Castle Dracula.
d. Count Dracula has a fear of mirrors.
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9: How do Dr. Abraham Van Helsing, Quincey P. Morris, Dr. John Seward, and Arthur Holmwood all try to save Miss Lucy Westenra?
a. They drape her room, bed, and neck with garlic.
b. All of them take turns staying at her house to protect her.
c. They all give their blood to her for transfusions.
d. They sterilize the boxes of earth.
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10: Who is “the Bloofer Lady?”
a. Mrs. Westenra
b. Miss Lucy
c. Miss Mina
d. A peasant woman that lives on Count Dracula’s estate
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11: What is the “service” that must be performed in order to free the “Un-Dead?”
a. The crucifix, holy water, and holy wafers: they are an anathema to vampires.
b. Garlic: it is abhorrent to a vampire.
c. A wooden stake must be driven through the heart, the head cut off, and garlic stuffed in the mouth.
d. A wild rose placed on the chest: it renders the vampire inactive.
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12: Who said the following: “the children of the night. . . . What music they make!”
a. Mr. Swales
b. Dr. Abraham Van Helsing
c. R.M. Renfield
d. Count Dracula
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13: Who said the following: “I think strange things which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me.”
a. Jonathon Harker
b. Miss Lucy Westenra
c. Miss Mina (Wilhelmina) Murray
d. Mrs. Westenra
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14: Who said the following: “There is something in that wind...that sounds, and looks, and tastes, and smells like death.”
a. Mr. Swales
b. R. M. Renfield
c. Dr. Abraham Van Helsing
d. The Captain of the Demeter
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15: Who said the following: “He is there. I know the secret now.”
a. R. M. Renfield
b. Jonathon Harker
c. the Mate of the Demeter, shortly before he throws himself overboard
d. Dr. Abraham Van Helsing
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