ENGL403-FinalExam-Answers

All of the following are associated with Gothic architecture EXCEPT:

Choose one answer.

	a. Vaulted ceilings
	b. The Middle Ages
	c. Complicated floor plans
	d. Neo-classicism

Question 2

All of the following define the Gothic EXCEPT:

Choose one answer.

	a. The unknown
	b. Transgression
	c. Reason
	d. The grotesque

Question 3

For what historical event did the Gothic serve as a metaphor?

Choose one answer.

	a. The American Revolution
	b. The French Revolution
	c. The Battle of Waterloo
	d. The Industrial Revolution

Question 4

How did the term “Gothic” become associated with the literary phenomenon known as the Gothic novel?

Choose one answer.

	a. The excessive violence found in the Gothic novel
	b. The barbarians that populate the Gothic novel
	c. The use of the word in the subtitle of Walpole’s novel
	d. The style of architecture found in the Gothic novel

Question 5

How does the use of Gothic architecture assist the Gothic novelist?

Choose one answer.

	a. It engenders confusion for both the novel’s protagonist and readers.
	b. It offers a secure refuge for the novel’s protagonist.
	c. It provides the space for a large community of people to congregate.
	d. It represents the glory of a bygone age.

Question 6

In what century and in what literary era was the first Gothic novel written?

Choose one answer.

	a. 17th century; Enlightenment
	b. 18th century; Enlightenment
	c. 18th century; Romanticism
	d. 19th century; Romanticism

Question 7

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

Choose one answer.

	a. The ethereal quality of the interior space of Gothic architecture
	b. The scientific advancement of the ribbed vault and flying buttress associated with Gothic architecture
	c. The reduction in width of the stone masonry in Gothic architecture
	d. The immense scale typical of Gothic structures

Question 8

In what way does the Gothic novel of the 18th century differ from the modern English novel that began to emerge in the 17th century and flourished in the 18th century?

Choose one answer.

	a. The focus on the middle and working classes
	b. The consideration of the sensibilities of the protagonists
	c. Plots taken from everyday life
	d. The exploration of cultural taboos

Question 9

In “The Gothic Sublime” how does Mishra characterize the labyrinth motif?

Choose one answer.

	a. As a plot structure that diminishes the Gothic novel’s intensity
	b. As the reader’s inward turn to examine his or her own tangled consciousness
	c. As a means for characters to directly confront unconscious problems
	d. As a place for the distressed heroine to hide

Question 10

In “The Gothic Sublime” how does Mishra characterize the Gothic novel?

Choose one answer.

	a. As a version of the Romantic novel
	b. As a set of literary devices developed in the 18th century but applicable to present day
	c. As the antithesis of postmodernism
	d. As the resolution of madness

Question 11

The Gothic novel was intended to have which of the following effects on the reader?

Choose one answer.

	a. To create a sense of mystery, gloom, and suspense
	b. To make the reader dislike modern society
	c. To make the reader feel distaste for supernatural themes
	d. To generate feelings of intense pleasure

Question 12

The popularity of which Gothic novelist is parodied in Austen’s “Northanger Abbey”?

Choose one answer.

	a. Horace Walpole
	b. Ann Radcliffe
	c. Matthew Lewis
	d. Mary Shelley

Question 13

What did the novelists of the first wave of Gothic literature think of religion?

Choose one answer.

	a. Roman Catholicism was wrongfully dismantled in England by Henry VIII in the 16th century.
	b. Jews represent sympathetic literary heroes.
	c. Religion is race-neutral.
	d. The Spanish Inquisition and the legend of the wandering Jew confirm the superiority of England.

Question 14

What do scholars Michael O’Rourke and David Collings argue about “Queer Romanticism”?

Choose one answer.

	a. Romantic literary criticism has been stubbornly limited with regard to queer readings.
	b. Deviant sexuality, including homosexuality, has historically been associated with Romantic literature.
	c. The sexual lives of Romantic-era authors are not relevant to our understanding of queer Romanticism.
	d. The “Queer Gothic” is understudied.

Question 15

What is a Satanic Hero?

Choose one answer.

	a. A hero who is known for being aristocratic, moody, and secretive
	b. A character who is essentially kind but performs a horrible act by accident
	c. A hero-villain who defies the laws of God’s universe
	d. A hero who is usually defined by his fatal attraction to women

Question 16

What is the original meaning of the word “Gothic”?

Choose one answer.

	a. Of or relating to anything Medieval
	b. Of or relating to anything rude, uncivilized, or ignorant; devoid of culture and taste
	c. Of or relating to the Germanic tribes that invaded and established kingdoms in Europe in the first millennium
	d. Of or relating to a particular style of architecture

Question 17

What is the significance of the “wandering Jew” motif?

Choose one answer.

	a. Religious upheaval
	b. The presence of omens
	c. The curse of immorality
	d. Insanity

Question 18

What is the significance of “the Other” in Gothic novels?

Choose one answer.

	a. They are almost always the subjects of omens and curses.
	b. They are typically heroes.
	c. They always express deviant sexual tendencies.
	d. They are perceived as dangerous because they are unknown.

Question 19

What quality does the Gothic novel of the 18th and early 19th centuries share with the majority of English novels of the same time period?

Choose one answer.

	a. Realism
	b. An epistolary format
	c. A focus on the individual
	d. An English setting

Question 20

When Mary Shelley writes about ghosts, what is her concern?

Choose one answer.

	a. People are foolishly superstitious.
	b. A world devoid of supernatural phenomena is a better world.
	c. A belief in ghosts is a belief in imagination.
	d. The personification of nature is regressive.

Question 21

Which of the following terms is most closely related to the phrase “the explained supernatural”?

Choose one answer.

	a. The uncanny
	b. The fallen world
	c. The “Other”
	d. The sublime

Question 22

Which psychological issue is NOT typical of the Gothic novel?

Choose one answer.

	a. Daydreams
	b. Aberrant mental states
	c. Violence
	d. Sexual rapacity

Question 23

Why do scholars consider the first wave of the English Gothic novel an aspect of Romanticism?

Choose one answer.

	a. The use of poetic prose in the Gothic novel
	b. The Gothic novel’s interest in the apocalyptic prophecies found in Hebrew and Christian Scriptures
	c. The ascendency of human reason in the Gothic novel
	d. The representation of contemporary life in the Gothic novel

Question 24

Why is the concept of the sublime important in Gothic literature?

Choose one answer.

	a. It leads the reader to overlook the beauty of nature.
	b. It reminds readers of their civic duties.
	c. It causes an experience of elestasis, or transport.
	d. It creates a sense of contentment.

Question 25

“A MANUSCRIPT was communicated to me during my travels in Italy, which was copied from the archives of the Cenci Palace at Rome, and contains a detailed account of the horrors which ended in the extinction of one of the noblest families of that city during the Pontificate of Clement VIII, in the year 1599.” All of the following state why this quotation from Perce Shelley’s “The Cenci” represents the Gothic EXCEPT:

Choose one answer.

	a. The placement of the action in the past and in a foreign country
	b. The grandiose threatening setting that requires ingenious stagecraft
	c. The focus on wrongdoing at the highest level of authority
	d. The use of real historical resources by Shelley for the foundation of his play

Question 26

According to Ellen Moers, how does Radcliffe’s heroine differ from the typical Gothic woman?

Choose one answer.

	a. Emily ends up happily married.
	b. Emily’s sense of decorum seems to falter late in the novel.
	c. Emily is a sensible rather than defenseless woman.
	d. Emily provides a unique example of a weak woman.

Question 27

According to Radcliffe, what is the difference between terror and horror?

Choose one answer.

	a. Horror is only a sense of the sublime.
	b. Terror contracts the soul.
	c. Terror involves uncertainty and obscurity.
	d. Horror fails to awaken and expand the soul.

Question 28

All of the following are labyrinthine in “The Mysteries of Udolpho” EXCEPT:

Choose one answer.

	a. Valancourt’s character
	b. Emily’s misfortunes
	c. The plot
	d. Emily’s mind

Question 29

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

Choose one answer.

	a. The concern for the sanctity of legal inheritance
	b. The interest in the lessons and values of the Middle Ages for England in the 18th century
	c. The support for the British class system
	d. The belief in British superiority to foreign countries

Question 30

All of the following are ways in which “The Mysteries of Udolpho” reflects the values of England in the 1790s EXCEPT:

Choose one answer.

	a. The triumph of reason over passion
	b. The rise of individual responsibility
	c. The social and fiscal independence of women
	d. The negative critique of Catholicism

Question 31

Based on your readings for the course, which of the following best states how critics often interpret the dead hand in “The Castle of Otranto”?

Choose one answer.

	a. The hand represents the superiority of the Enlightenment over medievalism.
	b. The hand symbolizes the danger of marriage.
	c. The hand signifies the mysterious pull of the labyrinth.
	d. The hand represents the claim of primogeniture over the living.

Question 32

Based on your readings for this course, which of the following best summarizes how most critics interpret the crumbling castle in “The Castle of Otranto”?

Choose one answer.

	a. The castle represents the presence of newer technologies.
	b. The castle signifies the ruin of feudal medievalism.
	c. The castle symbolizes the desire for a more powerful aristocracy.
	d. The castle shows the lack of change in popular architecture styles.

Question 33

For many scholars, what distinguishes terror from horror in the Gothic novel?

Choose one answer.

	a. The anticipation of the violation of one’s person versus an act of physical violence
	b. Plotted revenge versus random violence
	c. The male Gothic versus the female Gothic
	d. The persistence of the past in the present versus the betrayal in the present of the paternal protector

Question 34

How does Emily show initiative in “The Mysteries of Udolpho”?

Choose one answer.

	a. She leaves home in search of adventure.
	b. She takes control of her own money.
	c. She rejects her aunt’s invitation to travel to Italy.
	d. She converts to Catholicism.

Question 35

In what way does Radcliffe depart from Walpole’s earlier tradition?

Choose one answer.

	a. She creates a strong male hero to rescue Emily.
	b. She is not concerned with issues of rightful inheritance.
	c. She sets the novel in present day.
	d. She resolves the appearance of supernatural phenomena.

Question 36

In “The Castle of Otranto” what “monstrous Other” does Manfred embody?

Choose one answer.

	a. The undead
	b. The outcast
	c. The cursed
	d. The transgendered

Question 37

In “The Castle of Otranto” which attitude does Walpole express towards primogeniture?

Choose one answer.

	a. It is a necessary part of the social order.
	b. It is essentially fair.
	c. It is monstrous.
	d. It will naturally fall out of favor.

Question 38

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

Choose one answer.

	a. The ancestral castle
	b. Psychological terror
	c. The supernatural
	d. Physical violence

Question 39

What is distinctive about Emily’s bedchamber at Udolpho?

Choose one answer.

	a. It is lavishly furnished.
	b. It is haunted.
	c. It contains a secret passageway.
	d. It does not lock from the inside.

Question 40

What is Strawberry Hill?

Choose one answer.

	a. The ancestral home of Ann Radcliffe
	b. The ancestral home of Horace Walpole
	c. One of the settings in “The Mysteries of Udolpho”
	d. The inspiration for “The Castle of Otranto”

Question 41

What is the significance of the “bloody bedchamber” in Gothic fiction?

Choose one answer.

	a. It represents male sexuality.
	b. It suggests female complicity in sexual deviance.
	c. It refers to the location of murder in Gothic novels.
	d. It symbolizes the forced sequestration of women both before and after marriage.

Question 42

What literary convention is used pervasively in “The Mysteries of Udolpho”?

Choose one answer.

	a. Satire
	b. First-person narration
	c. Realism
	d. The uncanny doubling of characters

Question 43

What literary purpose does Emily’s stay with the nuns at the convent NOT serve?

Choose one answer.

	a. Emily is confronted with the duality of the human mind, at once rational and then mad.
	b. Emily is tested regarding the guilt and ghosts of sins past.
	c. Emily comes to understand the benefits of a cloistered life.
	d. Emily learns the story of Sister Agnes’s past.

Question 44

Which of the following best explains the treatment of the heroine in “The Mysteries of Udolpho”?

Choose one answer.

	a. The heroine’s fantasies about the castle are combined with her fear of violation.
	b. She is excluded from the novel’s violent disturbances.
	c. She is excluded from the general sense of isolation in the novel.
	d. The heroine is robbed of psychological complexity by focusing only on horror.

Question 45

Which of the following is NOT a theme of “The Castle of Otranto”?

Choose one answer.

	a. Unnatural forces overwhelming human endeavor
	b. The rupture of the everyday by acts of violence
	c. The destruction of humanity through scientific experimentation
	d. The return of the past to the present

Question 46

Which term is most closely affiliated with the female Gothic?

Choose one answer.

	a. Terror
	b. Sentimentalism
	c. Horror
	d. Ghosts

Question 47

Why do most scholars assume that Radcliffe favored “explained supernaturalism”?

Choose one answer.

	a. Her sense of morality and decorum
	b. Her defiance of contemporary culture
	c. Her lack of imagination
	d. Her full embrace of the Gothic vision of Walpole, Beckford, and Lewis

Question 48

Why does Horace Walpole make use of elaborate machines in “The Castle of Otranto”?

Choose one answer.

	a. To encourage rational evaluation rather than arouse emotional reactions
	b. To emphasize the importance of character development over action
	c. To assist with the flight and pursuit of villains and their prey
	d. To support the growth and development of machinery in the 18th century

Question 49

Why does Radcliffe favor the term “romance” as the subtitle to “The Mysteries of Udolpho”?

Choose one answer.

	a. Radcliffe wants to emphasize the happy ending of the marriage of Emily and Valancourt.
	b. It frees Radcliffe from a strict adherence to common life, allowing her to place Emily in challenging situations.
	c. Radcliffe considers her work a continuation of the sentimental novel of the 18th century.
	d. It acknowledges the lack of supernatural plot tricks.

Question 50

Why is “The Castle of Otranto” often considered a reaction against the Enlightenment?

Choose one answer.

	a. It shows the possible dangers of science.
	b. It exposes the deep flaws in medieval ways of thinking about the world.
	c. It marks a return to more primitive ways of pre-Enlightenment thought and expression.
	d. It suggests that reason is more important than emotion.

Question 51

All of the following refer to “the uncanny” EXCEPT:

Choose one answer.

	a. A psychoanalytic term that explains terror
	b. The supernatural
	c. “Unheimlich”
	d. A sense of uncomfortable strangeness

Question 52

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

Choose one answer.

	a. He reads the Bible.
	b. He is taught by Victor about the Bible.
	c. He reads Milton’s “Paradise Lost.”
	d. He listens outside church services.

Question 53

How does the character Dracula unsettle the Victorian patriarchy?

Choose one answer.

	a. He threatens to spread his madness to women.
	b. His sexuality appeals to women.
	c. He protects women’s chastity and virginity.
	d. He provides a way for Victorian men to blame their actions on women.

Question 54

How does the uncanny function in “Frankenstein”?

Choose one answer.

	a. The normal activity of vivisection is represented as horrible.
	b. Seemingly normal characters are actually terrifying.
	c. The dramatic landscape provides an alternative to the usual world.
	d. The monster’s grotesque body is actually made of human parts.

Question 55

In what way is Dracula NOT an “Other” figure?

Choose one answer.

	a. He is from a foreign land.
	b. He is racially different.
	c. He is Christian.
	d. He is a connection to a different time.

Question 56

In which way does Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” include elements of the uncanny?

Choose one answer.

	a. It reflects a woman’s everyday life.
	b. An everyday object causes her terror.
	c. An apparently normal person is revealed as a man.
	d. It features a body transformation.

Question 57

In “Dracula” what does the death of Lucy suggest?

Choose one answer.

	a. That sexual purity was less important than society’s safety
	b. That female sexuality is dangerous and must be destroyed
	c. That women are not one-dimensional
	d. That men consider themselves responsible for their own fates

Question 58

In “Dracula” what is the significance of the typewriter?

Choose one answer.

	a. It allows women to participate in the novel.
	b. It serves as a path to the public sphere for women.
	c. It is a less effective tool than traditional folklore weapons.
	d. It becomes a way to conceal information.

Question 59

In “Frankenstein” how do dreams function?

Choose one answer.

	a. They provide relief from the real world.
	b. They prophesy future destruction.
	c. They are part of the unconscious controlled by science.
	d. They obscure deep emotions.

Question 60

In “Frankenstein” how does Shelley represent science?

Choose one answer.

	a. As potentially productive when used correctly
	b. As something needed for humans to advance
	c. As a way to resolve human madness
	d. As inherently monstrous

Question 61

In “Frankenstein” what is the Gothic significance of the word “abortion”?

Choose one answer.

	a. It suggests that the creation process has become perverted.
	b. It invokes the laws of man.
	c. It offers an acceptable correction to scientific mistakes.
	d. It represents a natural process.

Question 62

The vampire myth is NOT associated with which of the following?

Choose one answer.

	a. Incest
	b. Life rituals with blood
	c. The fear of dying
	d. The fear of being buried alive

Question 63

To whom is the concept of the uncanny attributed?

Choose one answer.

	a. Sigmund Freud
	b. Edmund Lewis
	c. Edmund Burke
	d. Mary Shelley

Question 64

What does the character Dracula symbolize in the novel?

Choose one answer.

	a. Modern science
	b. The consciousness
	c. Theories of evolution
	d. Ancient evil

Question 65

What have literary critics read into the vampirism in Stoker’s “Dracula”?

Choose one answer.

	a. The novel presents the vampire count as a father-figure of great power.
	b. The vampire represents a beloved father who seeks to gather together all the women and young men (sons).
	c. The vampire represents sexual impotence.
	d. The vampire represents the future.

Question 66

What is Gothic about the narrative structure of “Frankenstein”?

Choose one answer.

	a. The erratic movement of time and place
	b. The readers’ unwavering empathy for Frankenstein
	c. The reliable narrator
	d. The mix of language in terms of voice, diction, and rhythm

Question 67

What is the origin of the vampire myth?

Choose one answer.

	a. Stoker’s “Dracula”
	b. Beckford’s “Vathek”
	c. Ancient civilizations worldwide
	d. Walpole’s “The Castle of Otranto”

Question 68

Which cultural theme is NOT referenced in Stoker’s “Dracula”?

Choose one answer.

	a. Imperialism
	b. The Woman Question
	c. Labor unions
	d. Theories of Darwinian evolution

Question 69

Which of the following best describes how the novel “Frankenstein” is understood by critics?

Choose one answer.

	a. As a commentary on Victorian England
	b. As an apolitical horror story
	c. As a novel ghostwritten by Perce Shelley
	d. As an exploration on the effects of science on humanity

Question 70

Which one of the following events inspired the trend of body transformation in Gothic novels?

Choose one answer.

	a. The decline in animal dissections
	b. The increase in scientific experimentation
	c. The end of absolute monarchy
	d. The end of the Vitalist Controversy

Question 71

Which statement best summarizes the parallel between Frankenstein and Prometheus?

Choose one answer.

	a. Both were successful because they followed the laws of nature.
	b. Both refused to use science to do innovative work.
	c. Both worked collaboratively.
	d. Both suffered for their attempt to do divine work.

Question 72

Who should NOT be viewed as Prometheus in Shelley’s “Frankenstein”?

Choose one answer.

	a. Frankenstein’s monster
	b. Mary Shelley
	c. Robert Walton
	d. Frankenstein

Question 73

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

Choose one answer.

	a. His habitat is equivalent to the Garden of Eden.
	b. He is a mistake.
	c. He is the first of his kind.
	d. He is responsible for the burden of original sin.

Question 74

Why is it significant that Dracula is from Transylvania?

Choose one answer.

	a. Transylvania is England’s economic rival.
	b. Transylvania and England had been at war in the 1860s.
	c. Transylvania represents a vaguely known and, therefore, suspicious country.
	d. Transylvania and England were once part of the Holy Roman Empire.

Question 75

“It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.” How does this opening sentence of Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” NOT immediately suggest the Gothic?

Choose one answer.

	a. The reference to ancestral halls
	b. The uncommon nature of the event
	c. The first-person narrator
	d. The dichotomy between the concepts of ordinary and estate

Question 76

All of the following are ways Dracula represents the “monstrous Other” EXCEPT:

Choose one answer.

	a. Dracula as foreign invader
	b. Dracula as sexual predator
	c. Dracula as usurper of the British class system
	d. Dracula as transgressor of God’s order

Question 77

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

Choose one answer.

	a. Each owner upends the prevailing law of the land.
	b. Both are former palaces.
	c. The owners of each had mistresses.
	d. On the outside they look like homes, but on the inside they are prisons.

Question 78

How do theorists suggest that the Gothic novel resembles queer and camp?

Choose one answer.

	a. The body is represented in abnormal ways.
	b. Women’s issues are interrogated.
	c. Gender issues are often overlooked.
	d. Many protagonists’ mothers are absent.

Question 79

How does Lewis portray the Catholic confessional in “The Monk”?

Choose one answer.

	a. As a path to redemption
	b. As a necessary control
	c. As a voyeuristic activity
	d. As a model for contemporary police work

Question 80

How does Stoker’s “Dracula” challenge contemporary sexual taboos?

Choose one answer.

	a. Mina and Jonathan decide to live together without being married.
	b. Lucy becomes a sexual predator.
	c. Van Helsing is a bachelor.
	d. John Seward remains devoted to Lucy.

Question 81

How does the motif of the wandering Jew figure in “The Monk”?

Choose one answer.

	a. It introduces one of several supernatural elements into the plot.
	b. It dispels the anti-Semitism associated with the Gothic novel.
	c. It offers a positive alternative to the excesses of the Catholic Church.
	d. It suggests that redemption is possible through penitence.

Question 82

How is the abbey in “The Monk” NOT Gothic?

Choose one answer.

	a. It is a Catholic structure.
	b. It was built in the Middle Ages.
	c. It is a sanctuary for women.
	d. It is labyrinthine.

Question 83

How is the concept of “the new woman” Gothic?

Choose one answer.

	a. It represents a “doubling” of Queen Victoria by English women as they remake themselves in her image.
	b. It represents the “transformation” of the traditional Victorian woman from the private sphere to the public sphere.
	c. It represents the rise in psychological pathologies or “madness” in women in the late 19th century.
	d. It represents the “pollution” of the ideal woman by foreign influences.

Question 84

How is Thornfield in “Jane Eyre” different from the structures found in the first wave of Gothic novels?

Choose one answer.

	a. It is an ancestral estate.
	b. It contains vault-like spaces.
	c. It is located in England.
	d. It is mysterious.

Question 85

How is “Jane Eyre” different from the novels of the first wave of English Gothic novels?

Choose one answer.

	a. Its protagonist is at risk for sexual transgression.
	b. It is a Bildungsroman.
	c. It explains strange phenomena.
	d. The theme of imprisonment is prominent.

Question 86

In what way do the houses in “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “Jane Eyre” differ from each other as Gothic literary structures?

Choose one answer.

	a. The relative location of the room in which the “troubled” women are kept
	b. The state of disrepair when the houses are first encountered by the protagonists
	c. The relative location of the houses within the larger communities
	d. The relative age of the houses

Question 87

In what way does Thornfield Hall differ from the Castle of Otranto, Udolpho, and the Convent of St. Clare?

Choose one answer.

	a. It is the scene of violence.
	b. It is the scene of sexual transgression.
	c. It is the scene of redemption for the Byronic hero.
	d. It serves as a kind of prison.

Question 88

In what way is “The Monk” a reaction to the French Revolution?

Choose one answer.

	a. It includes apocalyptic themes.
	b. It represents society as relatively stable.
	c. It condemns the misuse of power.
	d. It predicts the upheaval of society.

Question 89

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

Choose one answer.

	a. She is sexually deviant.
	b. She exemplifies unfeminine anger.
	c. She is not submissive.
	d. She is understood to be mad.

Question 90

In “The Monk” what event does NOT represent the theme of entrapment of women?

Choose one answer.

	a. Antonia’s death
	b. Matilda’s dressing as Rosario
	c. Agnes’s admittance to the convent
	d. The magic mirror

Question 91

In “The Yellow Wallpaper” what does Gilman suggest about madness?

Choose one answer.

	a. That it is necessary to contain mad women
	b. That it is an artificial patriarchal tool
	c. That men also are mad
	d. That female madness is a serious obstacle to women’s liberation

Question 92

What constitutes a “monstrous Other” in “The Yellow Wallpaper”?

Choose one answer.

	a. Cousin Henry and Julia
	b. Reading
	c. Writing
	d. John

Question 93

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

Choose one answer.

	a. The idea that women should advise men
	b. The idea that the Victorian woman represents “the new woman”
	c. The idea that women are pure and morally superior to men
	d. The idea that confinement in the home may induce madness

Question 94

What is NOT Gothic about the room to which the female protagonist of “The Yellow Wallpaper” is confined?

Choose one answer.

	a. It has bars on the window.
	b. It is removed from the main area of the house.
	c. It is locked.
	d. It is sunny.

Question 95

What role does Rosario play in the Gothic atmosphere of “The Monk”?

Choose one answer.

	a. Queer provocateur
	b. Heroine in distress
	c. Angel in the house
	d. Pursued protagonist

Question 96

Which character best represents the concept of terror versus that of horror in Lewis’s “The Monk”?

Choose one answer.

	a. Agnes
	b. Ambrosio
	c. Baptiste
	d. Matilda

Question 97

Which of the following terms is traditionally associated with the male Gothic?

Choose one answer.

	a. Body transformation
	b. Horror
	c. Terror
	d. The uncanny

Question 98

Who does NOT represent the “new woman”?

Choose one answer.

	a. Antonia
	b. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
	c. Jane Eyre
	d. Mina Murray Harker

Question 99

Why does one scholar suggest that “The Monk” represents literary transvestism?

Choose one answer.

	a. The habited nuns
	b. Ambrosio’s rape and murder of his sister
	c. Lewis’s use of a female pseudonym in the original edition
	d. Lewis’s choice of a feminine literary genre

Question 100

Why has Bertha been characterized as the “madwoman in the attic” by literary scholars?

Choose one answer.

	a. To represent the expansion of Gothic literary spaces from only subterranean spaces to attics as well
	b. To represent the shift from the male Gothic villain to the female Gothic villain in the Victorian Gothic novel
	c. To make reference to the rise of personal responsibility in Victorian England for the care of the sick and insane
	d. To make an ironic statement about the point of view and marginalization of the “Other” in Victorian England