Question: Although at least one critic has likened Thornfield to Bridewell, in what way are the two structures different ?

• 1. Each owner upends the prevailing law of the land.
• 2. Both are former palaces.
• 3. The owners of each had mistresses.
• 4. On the outside they look like homes, but on the inside they are prisons

Question: All of the following are labyrinthine in “The Mysteries of Udolpho” EXCEPT______________?

• 1. Valancourt’s character
• 2. Emily’s misfortunes
• 3. The plot
• 4. Emily’s mind

Question: Why do critics see Frankenstein’s monster as equivalent to the Biblical Adam ?

• 1. His habitat is equivalent to the Garden of Eden.
• 2. He is a mistake.
• 3. He is the first of his kind.
• 4. He is responsible for the burden of original sin.

Question: In “Jane Eyre” how does Bertha NOT trouble the patriarchy ?

• 1. She is sexually deviant.
• 2. She exemplifies unfeminine anger.
• 3. She is not submissive.
• 4. She is understood to be mad.

Question: In what way does Gothic-style architecture complement the themes of the Gothic novel ?

• 1. The ethereal quality of the interior space of Gothic architecture
• 2. The scientific advancement of the ribbed vault and flying buttress associated with Gothic architecture
• 3. The reduction in width of the stone masonry in Gothic architecture
• 4. The immense scale typical of Gothic structures

Question: All of the following refer to “the uncanny” EXCEPT________________?

• 1. A psychoanalytic term that explains terror
• 2. The supernatural
• 3. “Unheimlich”
• 4. A sense of uncomfortable strangeness

Question: All of the following are ways in which “The Castle of Otranto” reflects the values of Enlightenment England EXCEPT_________________?

• 1. The concern for the sanctity of legal inheritance
• 2. The interest in the lessons and values of the Middle Ages for England in the 18th century
• 3. The support for the British class system
• 4. The belief in British superiority to foreign countries

Question: What Gothic literary convention did NOT originate with Horace Walpole’s “The Castle of Otranto” ?

• 1. The ancestral castle
• 2. Psychological terror
• 3. The supernatural
• 4. Physical violence

Question: What does the term “angel in the house” signify ?

• 1. The idea that women should advise men
• 2. The idea that the Victorian woman represents “the new woman”
• 3. The idea that women are pure and morally superior to men
• 4. The idea that confinement in the home may induce madness

Question: How does Frankenstein’s monster learn about the Garden of Eden ?

• 1. He reads the Bible.
• 2. He is taught by Victor about the Bible.
• 3. He reads Milton’s “Paradise Lost.”
• 4. He listens outside church services.