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Vampires - Final

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  1. 1In his own life, Bram Stoker may have had a very tragic reason for his preoccupation with repression and sexuality. What possible disease may have actually killed the author?
    1. ATuberculosis
    2. BConsumption (tuberculosis)
    3. CSyphilis
    4. DGonorrhea
  2. 2Senf notes that Bram Stoker's narrative style doesn't allow him to comment directly on his characters' failures in judgment or lack of self-knowledge; however, Senf contends that he does leave clues indicative of as to WHAT about these characters?
    1. AStoker leaves clues about the characters' unreliability and the frequent discrepancies between their professed beliefs and their actions.
    2. BStoker leaves clues that the characters secretly admire Dracula and his power.
    3. CStoker leaves clues that certain characters (e.g. Mina, Harker, Lucy) may be dreaming about their encounters with Dracula.
    4. DStoker leaves clues about the characters' lost of religious faith throughout the novel.
  3. 3According to Senf, since Stoker is neither an intrusive editor nor uses framing devices, what is the reader likely to forget about the nature of the documents written by the characters that form the basis of the novel?
    1. AThe reader is likely to forget that these are fictitious records, made up by Stoker himself.
    2. BThe reader is likely to forget that these are factual and objective records, which show the true events that unfolded.
    3. CThe reader is likely to forget that these are opinions and subjective records, interpretations which are given within the range of knowledge of those who made them.
    4. DThe reader is likely to forget that these are actual records Stoker took from the British Library and pieced together to make a new story.
  4. 4If Senf has correctly problematized the explicitly given reasons why Dracula is condemned, what does she see as the actual factor that condemns Dracula in the eyes of the heroes?
    1. ADracula is condemned simply because he represents another way of life, one different from that of the novel's heroes.
    2. BDracula is condemned simply because he represents a new superior race better than the British
    3. CDracula is condemned simply because he represents complete evil, and the heroes represent total good.
    4. DDracula is condemned simply because he represents a sexually progressive point of view, which the heroes wish to reject.
  5. 5Stoker, Senf maintains, had translated the superstitious belief that creatures without souls have no reflection into a metaphor. What is that metaphor identified by Senf?
    1. AThis lack of reflection is a reflection of Dracula's unbounded sexuality.
    2. BThis lack of reflection is a manifestation of Harker's own moral blindness, his insensitivity, and his inability to perceive certain traits within himself.
    3. CThis lack of reflection show that Dracula has no soul as only the soul can reflect in a mirror.
    4. DThis lack of reflection is a metaphor for Lucy's lack of proper Victorian female morality.
  6. 6Arata states that Dracula enacts the period’s most important and pervasive narrative of decline, a narrative of “reverse colonization.” Such narratives, he states, express two basic emotions. What are these?
    1. AGeopolitical fear and cultural guilt
    2. BEmotional abandonment and cultural guilt
    3. CGeopolitical fear and emotional abandonment
    4. DFear of the Unknown and emotional abandonment
  7. 7According to Arata, in which ways does Stoker’s depiction of his vampire Count Dracula depart significantly from his literary predecessors?
    1. ACount Dracula is vigorous and energetic, while his predecessors were wan (pale) and enervated (languid).
    2. BCount Dracula is weak and enervated, while Ruthven is weak and cunning
    3. CCount Dracula is weak and enervated, while his predecessors were strong and skilled.
    4. DCount Dracula is vigorous and energetic, while Ruthven is weak and cunning
  8. 8Arata notes that the vampire’s vigor is in turn closely connected with its virility. How does this stand in contrast to the humans, especially the English men?
    1. AThe humans in the novel seem unable to reproduce themselves.
    2. BThe humans in the novel create offspring through colonization.
    3. CThe humans in the novel find sexual reproduction disgusting.
    4. DThe humans in the novel seem fearful of children.
  9. 9Who destroys the vampire Lucy?
    1. ADr. Seward
    2. BArthur
    3. CVan Helsing
    4. DJonathan
  10. 10 How does Dracula’s Occidentalism appear to the British characters?
    1. AAs Dracula fawning over English customs to be more like them.
    2. BAs Dracula reflecting their own ideology.
    3. CAs Dracula learning all he can about British customs in order to blend in on London's streets.
    4. DAs Dracula showing off his knowledge, which is faulty anyway

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English Quiz on Vampires - Final, created by Court Kowaluk on 21/04/2024.
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