Category: The Gothic Novel

A. The undead
B. The outcast
C. The cursed
D. The transgendered

A. Body transformation
B. Horror
C. Terror
D. The uncanny

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.

A. Realism
B. An epistolary format
C. A focus on the individual
D. An English setting

A. She is sexually deviant.
B. She exemplifies unfeminine anger.
C. She is not submissive.
D. She is understood to be mad.

A. The unknown
B. Transgression
C. Reason
D. The grotesque

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.

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.

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.

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.