| 1) Upon arriving at Castle Dracula in Transylvania in Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' - one of the peculiarities Jonathan Harker first notices about the Count is his: |
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Hairy palms
Ravenous appetite
Surly demeanor
Excessive make-up
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| 2) Tiny Tim is the youngest and weakest member of the Cratchit family in Charles Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol'. In his 'The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain', the corresponding member of the Tetterby family is nicknamed: |
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Tiny Tim
Tiny Taters
Little Moloch
Little Lucifer
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| 3) Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde are presented as two discrete characters until the ninth chapter of Robert Louis Stevenson's 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde', when _________________ observes the transformation of the former into the latter. |
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Utterson
Enfield
Lanyon
Poole
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| 4) The Headless Horseman of Washington Irving's 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' is also known as the: |
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Equestrian without a Cranium
Hessian of the Hollow
Silent Specter
Galloping Ghost
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| 5) Just before his death, Edgar Allan Poe was found semi-conscious, wearing another's clothing, on the streets of: |
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Philadelphia
New York
Richmond
Baltimore
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| 6) Madame and Mademoiselle L'Espanaye, the victims of 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' by Poe, are done in by: |
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Monsieur L'Espanaye
The French sailor
A pit viper
An Ourang-Outang.
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| 7) In Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado' Fortunato's last words are: |
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"For the love of God, Montresor."
"Ah, this Amontillado . . . now that is a prime vintage, Montresor."
"Will they not be awaiting us at the palazzo?"
"Ha! ha! ha! ? he! he! he! - a very good joke, indeed."
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| 8) H. P. Lovecraft's 'The Thing on the Doorstep' in which the narrator attempts to prove his innocence in the murder of his best friend, begins, "It is true that ... |
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"I laced my best friend?s brandy with arsenic . . ."
"I sent six bullets through the head of my best friend . . ."
"my person was seen committing the foul deed . . ."
"I was executed for murdering my best friend . . ."
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| 9) In Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein', Victor Frankenstein labours for nearly ________________ bringing his creature to life. |
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A month
Two years
A decade
All his life
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| 10) In Hans Christian Andersen's 'The Snow Queen' once young Kai realizes that the Snow Queen is carrying him off, he tries to say the Lord's Prayer but can only recall: |
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'Greensleeves'
The Big Multiplication Table
Hamlet's soliloquy
His spelling list.
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