Q 01/05

What is the subtitle of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein?

A) The Modern Prometheus

B) A Gothic Romance

C) The Creature of Geneva

D) A Tale of Terror

Answer · why

A) The Modern Prometheus

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus was the full title: Shelley began it at 18, and the first edition appeared anonymously in London on 1 January ...

Q 02/05

At whose villa on Lake Geneva did the 1816 ghost-story contest that produced Frankenstein take place?

A) Percy Shelley's

B) Lord Byron's

C) John Polidori's

D) William Godwin's

Answer · why

B) Lord Byron's

Lord Byron's rented Villa Diodati hosted the contest: the rainy 'Year Without a Summer' of 1816 kept Byron, Polidori and the Shelleys indoors, and Mar...

Q 03/05

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

A) 1847

B) 1877

C) 1897

D) 1887

Answer · why

C) 1897

Dracula was published in London by Archibald Constable in May 1897; Stoker had worked on it for about seven years, filling over a hundred pages of not...

Q 04/05

Which English seaside town does Dracula plague after arriving from Transylvania?

A) Brighton

B) Scarborough

C) Dover

D) Whitby

Answer · why

D) Whitby

Whitby: the Count's ship runs aground below the abbey during a storm and he leaps ashore as a great dog. Stoker holidayed in the North Yorkshire town ...

Q 05/05

What is the profession of Jonathan Harker, whose visit to the Count opens Dracula?

A) Solicitor

B) Doctor

C) Estate agent

D) Journalist

Answer · why

A) Solicitor

Harker is a solicitor: he has just passed his examinations when his employer Peter Hawkins sends him to Transylvania to complete the Count's purchase ...