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1. Yes  2. He didn't believe in superstitions.  3. "Dracula"  4. D, Dracula's first words to Renfield were, "I am Dracula."  5. He wondered why the front door was slightly ajar.  6. Dracula wanted to discuss the lease on Carfax Abbey.  7. Dracula was the spider, "Spinning his web for the unwary fly." He also added, "The blood is the life."  8. No, he was on his way down.  9. He admired the fireplace. He thought it was "cheerful."  10. Renfield expressed his concern over not having enough labels for Dracula's belongings.

11. Dracula didn't have fangs, so the correct answer is no.  12. Yes  13. Whitby Harbor  14. D  15. How did the authorities find Renfield in the ship's hold?  16. He was also wearing a top hat and a pair of white gloves.  17. Yes  18. An old toast about "lofty timbers."  19. "It reminds me of the broken battlements of my own castle in Transylvania."  20. She seemed mesmerized by it. 

21. Rats, but he also craved nice, juicy spiders. The reason why he ate flies was because they were easier to find.  22. Dr. Seward asked Renfield why he was so anxious to leave the sanitarium. 
23. Professor Van Helsing knew that wolfs bane could be used as a vampire deterrent.  24. The scarf around her neck  25. The reflection that couldn't be seen in the mirror of the cigarette box.  26. His "ill-timed visit."  27. He threw down the newspaper he was holding in disgust.  28. Under no circumstances were the windows in her room to be opened.  29. His presence was indicated by the shadow that was cast on the door.  30. She said she saw two red eyes and a white, livid face staring back at her.

31. She told her fiancé that she loved nights with fog and that the night was the only time she really felt alive.  32. "Punish me, torture me. But let me live. I can't die with all those lives on my conscious. All that blood on my hands."  33. Yes  34. Van Helsing asked Harker to find a stone. But that wasn't what he returned with. Give yourself a bonus point if you remembered what the professor used for a hammer. The answer to that question can be found in the chapter entitled Evil's End.  35. She clutched her chest.
36. Mina asked, "Aren't you coming with us?"  37. Hungarian and Latin were the two foreign languages in the film. Swan Lake was used during the film's opening credits. One of Wagner's opera's was heard in the theater.


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19. They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, unless you're mocking someone. That's what Mina did when she mimicked Dracula's accent. The question is; which of his words did she repeat?

20. If we asked you how Dracula got into Lucy's bedroom the night he killed her, you'd say, "He flew in through an open window under the guise of a bat," right? Did she scream or just seem mesmerized by it?

21. An autopsy on Lucy's body revealed that she died from an unnatural loss of blood. The word "unnatural" could have also been used to describe Renfield's diet. Did his cravings leans towards spiders, flies or rats?

22. What question did Renfield answer with the words, "My cries at night might disturb (her)"?

23. What was Renfield referring to when he exclaimed, "You know too much to live!"?

24. This was the reason why Harker didn't see the bite marks on Mina's neck when she gasped, "It seemed as if all the life had been drained out of me."

25. Wouldn't it have been ironic if it took something that couldn't be seen to convince Harker that Dracula was, in fact, a vampire? Tell us what we're referring to.

26. Dracula apologized for two different things before he left Dr. Seward's home. The mirror he broke and what else?

27. When Mina was asked if she saw Miss Lucy after she was buried, Harker reacted in a way that spoke volumes. What did he do?

28. Van Helsing asked Briggs (Joan Standing) to place the wreath that was made out of wolfs bane around Mina's neck to protect her from Dracula after she retired for the night. He also asked her to watch Mina closely, and to make sure she didn't remove it in her sleep. What did he add to those instructions?

29. What indicated Renfield's whereabouts after Van Helsing remarked, "Our only chance of saving Mina's life is to find the hiding place of Dracula's living corpse"?

30. "They were like his, only smaller." That was how Renfield described the eyes of the rats he saw in the mist. What did Mina claim to see when she described the same thing?

31. Mina's physical appearance never changed, but it was obvious (to anyone who believed in vampires) that she was becoming a nosferatu. That was indicated by what confession in the chapter entitled The Vampire's Curse?

32. It was Renfield who cried, "God will not damn a lunatic's soul (because) he knows the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds." If he truly believed that, he wouldn't have said what he did to Dracula while he was pleading for his life. What were his last words?

33. Two boxes were found when Van Helsing searched the old abbey. Was Dracula in the first crate that was opened?

34. Where did Harker go when he left Van Helsing alone for a few minutes?

35. When Van Helsing drove a stake through Dracula's heart, his agony was conveyed through Mina in some way. Do you remember how?

36. What was Van Helsing referring to when he remarked, "Not yet" in the film's closing sequence?

37. We're going to end this quiz with a two-part question that's worth two points. The first part involves the two foreign languages that were spoken in the film. The second pertains to the film's only two pieces of music. We thought about making this a four-point question - one for each correct answer, but we're doing you a favor by giving you one less question to screw up. So go ahead, prove us wrong!!
1. The story began on the eve of "Walpurgis Night" which translated to "The night of evil." Was Renfield (Dwight Frye) aware of that when he left for Dracula's (Bela Lugosi) castle?

2. Renfield was told that Dracula's castle was full of vampires. But he chose to ignore that warning. Tell us why.

3. Someone made the sign of the Holy Cross after Renfield said something to the innkeeper (Michael Visaroff). What word got that person's attention?

4. Which (if any) of the following statements are incorrect?
  A. Dracula's castle was located in the
  mountains of Transylvania. But no mention
  of that was made in the film's opening
  sequence.
  B. The reason why Renfield left the inn shortly
  before nightfall was because he was told that a
  carriage would pick him up at the Borgo Pass
  at midnight.
  C. Renfield took the crucifix he was given, but it
  was for his "mother's sake." Not his own.
  D. Dracula's first words to Renfield were, "I bid
  you welcome."

5. Renfield thought the driver of his coach disappeared after Dracula transformed himself into a bat. He also wanted to know what happened to his luggage. What did he seemed puzzled by when he arrived at Castle Dracula?

6. Why was Renfield summoned to Dracula's castle?

7. The ruined castle, the coffins, Dracula's hypnotic stare… any one of those should have been enough to convince Renfield of the stories he heard. He was even given a warning of some type after Dracula introduced himself. What would Professor Van Helsing (Edward Van Sloan) have been referring to if he remarked, "You should have fled the castle when you heard that"?

8. Was Renfield walking up the grand staircase when he heard the baying of wolves?

9. What did Renfield like about the room he was given?

10. Dracula told Renfield that he was taking three boxes to London. But he didn't tell him what the boxes contained. We're sure you know the answer to that question, so we'll make this one a bit more challenging and ask you what prompted the disclosure of that information, as vague as it was?

11. Here's something else you should remember. It wasn't clear what Renfield stuck himself with until he mentioned that it was a paperclip. Our question is, were Dracula's fangs exposed prior to that?

12. Renfield was left with a supply of rats, spiders and insects as a reward for his loyalty. Were those the only things he asked for?

13. Dracula chartered a Scandinavian schooner called the Vesta to reach London. What port did the ship arrive in?

14. The headline, "Crew of Corpses Found on Derelict Vessel" appeared on the front page of which of the following newspapers?
  A. The London Times
  B. The London Herald
  C. The London Gazette
 
D. None of the above. The name of the
  newspaper was cut off near the top of the
  frame. So your guess is as good as ours.

15. We'll give you the answer to this one, you give us the question - They heard someone laughing.

16. Let's say Dracula's first female victim (Anita Harder) was found alive. Her description of the count would have differed in some way from Renfield's. For instance, she probably would have told the authorities that he was wearing a cape. What were some of the other differences?

17. It was Dr. Seward (Herbert Bunston) who introduced Lucy (Frances Dade) to Dracula. Was he also the last person to see her alive?

18. Dracula told Lucy that the crumbling walls in his new home reminded him of the broken battlements in his castle. What did Lucy say the old abbey reminded her of?
DRACULA  Directed by Tod Browning, 1931