Q 01/05

In Edgar Allan Poe's best-known poem, a raven perches above a grieving man's door and repeats which word?

A) Evermore

B) Forevermore

C) Nevermore

D) Nothing more

Answer · why

C) Nevermore

Nevermore needed a speaker that could talk without reasoning, Poe explained, and a parrot was his first idea before he settled on a raven as far more ...

Q 02/05

Who leads the group that hunts the vampire in Bram Stoker's Dracula?

A) Jonathan Harker

B) Abraham Van Helsing

C) Arthur Holmwood

D) Quincey Morris

Answer · why

B) Abraham Van Helsing

Abraham Van Helsing, a Dutch doctor from Amsterdam, organises the hunt after Lucy Westenra's death and directs Harker, Seward, Holmwood and Morris all...

Q 03/05

In Bram Stoker's Dracula, the Count's ship runs aground at which English seaside town?

A) Brighton

B) Whitby

C) Scarborough

D) Blackpool

Answer · why

B) Whitby

Whitby gave Stoker more than a setting: on holiday there in 1890 he found the name Dracula in a book at the public library, and until then his notes h...

Q 04/05

What term describes a novel like Dracula, told through letters, diary entries and newspaper clippings?

A) Pastoral

B) Picaresque

C) Epistolary

D) Polemical

Answer · why

C) Epistolary

Epistolary comes from the Latin for a letter; Stoker pushed the form so far that a ship captain's log reaches the reader translated, transcribed by a ...

Q 05/05

What is the subtitle of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein?

A) The New Icarus

B) A Gothic Romance

C) The Modern Prometheus

D) The Waking Dead

Answer · why

C) The Modern Prometheus

The Modern Prometheus: Prometheus stole fire from the gods, and Victor steals the power to create life. The first edition appeared anonymously on 1 Ja...