Category: The Gothic Novel

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

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

A. As a path to redemption
B. As a necessary control
C. As a voyeuristic activity
D. As a model for contemporary police work

A. The ancestral castle
B. Psychological terror
C. The supernatural
D. Physical violence

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

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

A. The American Revolution
B. The French Revolution
C. The Battle of Waterloo
D. The Industrial Revolution

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.

A. Horace Walpole
B. Ann Radcliffe
C. Matthew Lewis
D. Mary Shelley

A. It is lavishly furnished.
B. It is haunted.
C. It contains a secret passageway.
D. It does not lock from the inside.