Category: The Gothic Novel

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

A. Vaulted ceilings
B. The Middle Ages
C. Complicated floor plans
D. Neo-classicism

A. Modern science
B. The consciousness
C. Theories of evolution
D. Ancient evil

A. A psychoanalytic term that explains terror
B. The supernatural
C. “Unheimlich”
D. A sense of uncomfortable strangeness

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.