Category: The Gothic Novel

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.

A. Incest
B. Life rituals with blood
C. The fear of dying
D. The fear of being buried alive

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

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

A. Antonia
B. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
C. Jane Eyre
D. Mina Murray Harker

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.

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

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.

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.

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