Q 01/05

In what year was Bram Stoker's novel Dracula first published?

A) 1907

B) 1887

C) 1897

D) 1917

Answer · why

C) 1897

Dracula was first published in 1897 by Archibald Constable and Company in London; a flawed US copyright filing later left the story in the American pu...

Q 02/05

Bram Stoker was born in which country?

A) Ireland

B) Scotland

C) England

D) Wales

Answer · why

A) Ireland

Bram Stoker was born in Ireland, at Clontarf in November 1847, and spent his first seven years bedridden with an undiagnosed illness.

Q 03/05

What was the novel's title on the printer's typescript before a last-minute change?

A) The Castle in the Carpathians

B) The Vampire Count

C) Powers of Darkness

D) The Un-Dead

Answer · why

D) The Un-Dead

The printer's typescript was titled The Un-Dead; Stoker switched to Dracula only weeks before publication, so the contract with Constable carried the ...

Q 04/05

Stoker took the name 'Dracula' from William Wilkinson's 1820 history of which two principalities?

A) Serbia and Bosnia

B) Bohemia and Moravia

C) Bavaria and Saxony

D) Wallachia and Moldavia

Answer · why

D) Wallachia and Moldavia

Stoker took the name from William Wilkinson's 1820 Account of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia, whose footnote said Dracula meant devil in...

Q 05/05

In the novel, what is the name of the ship that carries Dracula and his boxes of earth to England?

A) The Czarina Catherine

B) The Hesperus

C) The Persephone

D) The Demeter

Answer · why

D) The Demeter

The Demeter, a Russian schooner out of Varna, runs aground in a storm with its dead captain lashed to the wheel and a large dog leaping ashore.