Category: The Gothic Novel

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.

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.

A. The uncanny
B. The fallen world
C. The “Other”
D. The sublime

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

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

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 choiceof a feminine literary genre