Q 01/05

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

A) Evermore

B) Forevermore

C) Nevermore

D) Nothing more

Answer · why

C) Nevermore

Nevermore became the most quoted line Poe ever wrote, and the poem that carried it was published in January 1845.

Q 02/05

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

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 which year was Stoker's Dracula first published?

A) 1912

B) 1921

C) 1947

D) 1897

Answer · why

D) 1897

May 1897. Stoker was working as a theatre manager in London at the time.

Q 04/05

Dracula is told through letters, diary entries and newspaper clippings. What is that form called?

A) Pastoral

B) Picaresque

C) Epistolary

D) Polemical

Answer · why

C) Epistolary

The scattered documents let Stoker withhold information from his own characters, which is where much of the dread comes from.

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...