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You Know DRACULA?
Dare to Take This Quiz!
He’s the most popular monster in literature, yet most of what you “know” about
him probably isn’t true. You think he was a complete figment of Bram
Stoker’s imagination? Nope. Stoker took Dracula’s name, background
and even some character traits from a real person…even if he got a few
things wrong. You’ve never read the novel, or read it many years ago,
but you’ve seen all the movies? Then you probably “remember” many
things differently from the way they happened in the book. Test your knowledge
of Dracula trivia with this quiz.
Questions
(see bottom of page for link to answers)
1. The title character of Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula was
based on a real Eastern European, 15th-century nobleman, Vlad III. His actual
title
translates most closely as
a. Count
b. Lord
c. Prince
d. King
2. Vlad Dracula governed the province of
a. Transylvania
b. Wallachia
c. Moldavia
d. Bohemia
3. In 1462, the great sultan Mohammed II came to attack the capital
of Dracula’s
province. He lost heart and turned back when he saw
a. the massive fortifications around the castle
b. Dracula’s impressive army
c. the difficulty of the steep terrain
d. a “forest” of rotting corpses, victims impaled by Dracula’s
orders
4. In Stoker’s novel, Dracula is destroyed when
a. a wooden stake is driven into his heart
b. he is stabbed with a knife and beheaded
c. he crumbles to ashes after being exposed to sunlight
5. Vlad Dracula’s world view coincides most closely with--and
may even have inspired-- what other classic book?
a. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
b. Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
c. The Vampyre by John Polidori
d. Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Geothe
6. Which of these events are part of the lore about the historical Dracula:
a. When envoys from the Turkish sultan refused to remove their turbans in his
presence, he ordered the turbans nailed to their heads
b. His wife threw herself from a castle parapet into the Arges River, because
she thought she was about to be captured by Turkish invaders
c. He invited all the poor people of his province to a feast in a barn, then
barred the doors and set it on fire
d. He drank blood, slept in a coffin and could transform into a bat
7. In Stoker’s novel, Mina allows Dracula to take her blood and “baptize” her
as a fledgling vampire because
a. she feels sympathetic towards him
b. he makes passionate love to her
c. he threatens to kill her husband, who is sleeping beside her
d. she believes she is the reincarnation of his dead wife
8. “Dracula” means “Son of the Dragon.” He
received this name because
a. he acquired such a reputation for cruelty
b. he fought so fiercely in battle
c. he inherited from his father membership in a religious brotherhood, The
Order of the Dragon
d. he supposedly could transform into a dragon
BONUS QUESTION:
Which character in Dance with the Dragon may be Dracula under a different
name?
a. Stephen Farkas
b. Armand Renascut
c. Dan Walsh
d. Pete LoMonaco
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