Dracu and A Trivia Quiz

Answer: Jonathan Harker

Jonathan Harker was sent to Transylvania to meet with the Count by his superior, Mr. Hawkins, who was unable to travel due to an attack of gout. Mr. Hawkins writes to the Count, "...I am happy to say I can send a sufficient substitute, one in whom I have every possible confidence.

He is a young man, full of energy and talent in his way, and of a very faithful disposition. He is discreet and silent, and has grow into manhood in my service."

Answer: in the journals and diaries of the characters

Writing the story as told in the private correspondence and musings of the characters themselves was Stoker's innovative way of moving the narrative along, punching up the story's sense of urgency and menace and allowing the reader to witness the unfolding of events from multiple angles.

Answer: Carpathians

The Carpathians consist of a chain of mountain ranges in Eastern Europe. They form an arc 1500 km. long, stretching from the Czech Republic in the northwest to Serbia in the south.

Answer: climbs lizardlike on the outside walls

As Jonathan Harker writes, "I saw the whole man slowly emerge from the window and begin to crawl down the castle wall over that dreadful abyss, face down with his cloak spreading about him like great wings." Harker was horrified at the sight of Dracula crawling down the castle wall but later, in his own desperation to find the key to the castle door and escape, he carefully scales down the wall himself to enter the window of Dracula's burial chamber.

Answer: Mina Murray

After Harker's escape from Dracula and his brides, Mina travels to Budapest to care for him after his harrowing ordeal. Her full name is Wilhelmina.

Answer: Gothic

"Dracula" is the most popular and lasting of Bram Stoker's works. The supernatural evil of the Count and the remote, dismal castle setting are classic Gothic characteristics.

Answer: Lucy Westenra

Lucy is considering no less than three marriage proposals at the time of Mina's visit. In her letters to Mina, Lucy tells of being courted by Doctor John Seward, Quincey P. Morris and Arthur Holmwood.

Answer: Professor Van Helsing

Van Helsing tries for several days to revive Lucy without success. Ultimately, a wolf breaks into Lucy's room one night and kills her. Lucy becomes one of the undead and is destroyed by Van Helsing.

Answer: yes, a mustache

As recorded by Jonathan Harker, "within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white mustache, and clad in black from head to foot." Our young Englishman also notices that the Count has hair in the center of his palms. Even more disturbing, Harker finds, are two small, sharp canines that protrude from under his upper lip.

Answer: Exeter

Harker sets out from Exeter in the spring of 1893 for Transylvania. He thinks he is on a routine assignment to deliver a deed of purchase to a Transylvanian nobleman named Count Dracula. The deed is Dracula's document of ownership of a London estate called Carfax.