Horror Test Flashcards

1
Q

Adam and Eve and a vampire named

A

Lilith
Cast out for disobeying Adam
Feeds on blood of newborns

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2
Q

What keeps vampire myth alive

A

Seductive power of vampire

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3
Q

Vampires have what gift

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Gift of external life

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4
Q

Definition of vampire

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Returns from dead
Attacks people
Drinks their blood

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5
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Vampire comes from

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Hungarian word vampyre
Slavic
Spirit nourished himself on living

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6
Q

Word for corpse that would not rest

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Nosferatu

Undead

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7
Q

Black Death:bubonic plague

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In Europe

Buried people alive after presumed dead

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8
Q

The vampire of the past was a scapegoat for

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Unexplainable events and wrongdoings in villages

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9
Q

Evidence for corpse being vampire

A

Blood draining from mouth
Change in color
Longer hair/ nails

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10
Q

Dracula means

A

Son of the devil

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11
Q

Vlad tepes

A

Impaired victims

Evil

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12
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Elizabeth bathory

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Family had madness
Tortured young virgins and bathed in their blood
600 women dead

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13
Q

Charles Ferdinand de chirtes wrote a book about

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Vampire hunting

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14
Q

Beloved a vampire could be killed by

A

Steak through heart or burning

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15
Q

Three things that repel vampires

A

Silver
Crucifix
Garlic

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16
Q

Beam stoker

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Wrote Dracula
Wrote to convince people or religion
Not to change
And stick to traditional roles against science and technology

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17
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Fritz Harmon

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German butcher shop owner who killed men and boys with a bite to the neck, drank their blood, and ate their flesh. Sold meat to customers

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18
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Jeffery dahmer

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Killed men and boys, dismembered their bodies and drank their blood

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19
Q

Modern day vampires represent

A

Outsiders

20
Q

Horror

A

An overwhelming and painful feeling caused by something frightfully terrifying, shocking, or revolting

21
Q

Three points to horror

A

Story focuses on fear
Supernatural elements
Psychological fears

22
Q

Horror emerges in

A

1700s

23
Q

Poe raises horror level by

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Mixing reason and madness, eerie atmosphere and everyday reality

24
Q

Gothic horror

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Gloomy settings 
Grotesque or violent events
Degeneration or decay
Usually evil wins 
(Example Dracula)
25
Q

Victorian England and Dracula religion

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Christianity
Church of England very powerful
Rich powerful people control church and gov

26
Q

Crisis of the rocks

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Darwin and science start to make discoveries that contradict what the church says about creation
Creates extreme controversy

27
Q

Victorian women

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Ridged roles
Strict rules
Mothers, caregivers
Not sexual
Extremely proper
28
Q

New women

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Challenged traditional role

Demanded sexual and social autonomy

29
Q

Fallen women

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Women who has broken the rules
Suffers an ill fate
Used to reinforce the values of society
(Lucy and lady vampires)

30
Q

Mina in Dracula

A

Traditional
Expectation for time period
Supports husband Jonathan
Caring nurturing proper

31
Q

Lucy

A

Uncertain of self
On her way to fallen women
Easier to manipulate
Independent and loose morals

32
Q

Vampire ladies

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Evil power
Fallen women
Challenge norm
Seductive 
Independent
Take life not nurturing
33
Q

Renfield

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Purpose is to create fear and show super natural elements
Parallels Dracula’s rise and fall
Advancement of science
Shows how Mina clams him with pure ness

34
Q

Why did stoker choose horror for Dracula

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Scared of new traditions, fearful of not being religious
Fear and unknown
Easy to convey, clear objectives and clear visions
Escapism of ideas

35
Q

Stokers definition of good

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Strong morals
Following tradition
Religious faith
Western good

36
Q

Poe’s History

A

Mother died of tuberculosis when three
Pie taken in by John and Francis Allen but never accepted as son
Leaves college for gambling debt
Death of foster mother
Married Virginia who died of tuberculosis
Poe becomes a drunk

37
Q

What did Poe strongly believe

A

It is the title thins that push people over the edge and then their true identities are revealed
Essential truths about humanity=EVIL

38
Q

Poe wrote

A

Black cat
Hop frog
Masque of the red death

39
Q

Masque of red death connection or Poe’s life

A

Red death is tuberculosis

40
Q

Hop frog connection to Poe’s life

A

King is step father, never accepted as a man
Poe ridiculed and laughed at for poems life hop frog
Was a drunk and alcohol affected hop frog
Protected women

41
Q

History of room 1408

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12 suicides and 30 natural deaths

42
Q

Stephan Kings message

A

Evil is all’s around us
Accept it, deal with it, let it go
Be there when you are most vulnerable

43
Q

How is stokers literature different than Poe and king

A

King and Poe both wrote about humanity being evil. Stoker wrote to convince people of religion, tradition and how science/ technology/ Change is bad

44
Q

Stephan kind main premise about evil

A

Evil is always present and in your most vulnerable form

45
Q

Stephan Kong’s stories

A

The man in black suit

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