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

Shelley began the story at 18 and the first edition appeared anonymously in London on 1 January 1818.

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

The rainy "Year Without a Summer" kept the party indoors at the Villa Diodati.

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

Stoker wrote it mostly in the 1890s and left over a hundred pages of notes drawn from folklore and history.

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

Stoker chose the name Dracula from a history of Wallachia because he thought it meant "devil" in Romanian.

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

The novel is told entirely through letters, diary entries and newspaper articles.