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WorksheetsVampires: The World's Nightmare (TEDEd Video)
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 9mins
Vampires were created in the Victorian era.
True
False
The Mesopotamian Lamashtu had
the head of a giraffe and the body of a horse.
the head of a donkey and the body of a lion.
the head of a lion and the body of a donkey.
the head of a horse and the body of a giraffe.
Striges were....
bloodthirsty birds in Ancient Rome.
bloodthirsty birds in Ancient Greece.
bloodthirsty birds in Ancient Egypt.
Yara-mha-yha-who comes from
Australia
New Zealand
Ireland
Scotland
In the folklore of the Philippines and Malaysia, bloodthirsty creatures were
female creatures.
male creatures.
animals.
chimeras.
What trait defines vampires all over the world?
They have bat wings.
They hate garlic and fear crucifixes
They can't go out by daylight.
They sustain themselves on other creatures' living force.
The modern idea of a vampire emerges in ...
the 18th century, in Western Europe.
the 19th century, in Western Europe.
the 18th century, in Eastern Europe.
the 19th century, in Eastern Europe.
Modern vampires appeared in European folklore because...
there were severe droughts and famines and people couldn't find any rational cause to what was happening to them.
there were many diseases and plagues that people were unable to explain rationally, so they looked for supernatural causes.
The modern characteristics of vampires are...
they are undead, shape-shifting and diurnal.
they are dead, shape-shifting and diurnal.
they are undead, shape-shifting and nocturnal.
they are dead, shape-shifting and nocturnal.
The modern vampire appeared ...
in Albany and among Roman people.
in Albany and among Romani people.
As Eastern European people feared the dead might come back to feast on the living, they set up rituals that included...
beheading.
burning.
singing.
staking the corpse to the coffin to prevent if from getting up.
Who tried to put an end to grave tampering?
the Empress of Great Britain
the Empress of Austria
the Empress of Australia
Who did she send?
her physicist
her physician
Identify 3 famous 19th-century vampire stories in British literature:
Vampyre (JW Polidori)
Carmilla (Sheridan Le Fanu)
Dracula (Bram Stoker)
Twilight (Stephenie Meyer)
Identify 2 historical elements (that have become myths) that inspired Dracula:
Elizabeth Bathory's blood baths
Jack the Ripper
the brutal executions of Vlad Dracul
cannibalism during the American conquest of the West
What vampire traits did Bram Stoker add to the list of their early characteristics?
fear of crucifixes
inability to see one's own reflection in a mirror
weakness in the sunlight
ability to change into different creatures
